Fraction Action
Which division expression is equivalent to the fraction 5/8?
What is 5 divided by 8?
What is the volume of a box that is 4 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 3 feet tall?
What is $24 cubic feet?
A teacher wants to share 6 pounds of trail mix equally among 8 students. Write the division expression that shows how much each student gets.
What is 6 divided by 8?
How many meters did a student bike in total if he rode 1.45 km on Wednesday and 3.72 km on Thursday? (1 km = 1,000 meters)
What is 5,170 meters? (1.45 + 3.72) x 1,000 = 5.17 x 1,000 = 5,170)
If you multiply 7/8 by 4/3 will the product be greater than, less than, or equal to 7/8?
What is greater than 7/8? (Because 4/3 is greater than 1)
A student has a fish tank with a volume of 24 cubic feet. Can they pour a bucket containing 30 cubic feet of water into the tank without overflowing?
No because 30 is > 24.
A chef splits 4 whole pizzas into slices that are each 1/4 of a pizza. How many slices of pizza does the chef have in total?
What is 16 slices?
Write the following in standard form: (9 x 100) + (2 x 10) + (8 x 1) + (5 x 1/10) + (6 x 1/100)
What is 928.56?
What is 1/2 divided by 3?
What is 1/6?
A rectangular prism has a volume of 36 cubic centimeters. If the length is 4 cm and the width is 9 cm, what is the height?
What is 1 cm?
A student spent 5 hours studying equally for 3 math tests. How many hours did he spend studying for each test? (Answer as a mixed number).
What is 1 and 2/3 hours?
Round 0.947 to the nearest hundredth.
What is 0.95?
An area model shows 2 shaded rows out of 5, and 2 shaded columns out of 3. What multiplication expression does this represent?
What is 2/5 x 2/3 = 4/15.
A student says: "It's impossible to build a rectangular prism with a volume of 40 units cubed if one side measures 5 units." Give dimensions for a prism that proves them wrong.
What is 5 x 4 x 2 or 5 x 8 x 1?
Match the story to the fraction: A farmer divides 8 bags of feed equally among 5 cows.
What is 8/5 or 1 and 3/5 bags per cow?
How many kilograms are equal to 750 grams? (1 kg= 1,000 grams)
What is 0.75 kg?
A rectangular postal stamp measures 4/5 inch wide and 1 and 1/3 inches tall. What is the area of the stamp in square inches.
What is 1 and 1/15square inches? (4/5 x 4/3 =16/15 = 1 and 1/15).
A storage box is made of two unit-cube layers. Each layer is 5 cubes long and 3 cubes wide. What is the total volume?
What is 30 cubic units?
An office manager orders 17 boxes of markers and divides them equally among 8 grade-level teams. How many boxes does each team receive? (Answer as a mixed number)
What is 2 and 1/8 boxes?
Where should parentheses be placed in 8 x 3 + 6 / 2 + 4 so the total value equals 25?
What is 8 x 3 + (6 / 2) + 4