Multiplying a Fraction by a Whole Number and a whole number by a fraction
Find the product: 6 x 2/3 =
What is 4 ?
Solve 3/8 x 1/4 =
What is 3/32?
Solve: 4 divided by 1/2 =
What is 8?
Solve by showing the model and by using the algorithm: 1/2 divided by 3.
What is 1/6?
Santiago, David, Jennifer, and Sue split a cookie cake into fourths. Santiago ate 1/2 of his piece, David ate 3/4 of his piece, Jennifer ate 1/3 of her piece, and Sue at 1/8 of her piece. What fraction of the cookie cake did each child eat? Who ate the most cake?
What is: Santiago, 1/8, David, 3/16, and Jennifer 1/12, Sue ate 1/32, David ate the most cake?
Kenny ate 1/4 of 3 different types of pizzas. How much pizza did Kenny eat?
What is Kenny ate 3/4 of a pizza?
What fraction is equivalent to 2/3 x 3/5?
a) 6/20
b) 2/5
c) 9/10
What is b, 2/5?
There are 4 apples that are cut into 1/5 sections. How many people can receive a 1/5 section?
What is 20 people?
Solve by completing the algorithm and showing the model: 1/3 divided by 3
What is 1/9? and the model of 1/3 divided into 3 equal sections, one of the sections will be 1/9.
If Tim uses 2 1/2 cups of flour in his cake recipe and wants to make 4 1/2 cakes, how much flour will he need?
What is 11 1/4 cups of flour ?
Ken drinks 2/7 of a carton of milk each day. How much milk does he drink in 3 days?
What is 6/7 of a carton?
Find the area of a playmat that is 2/3 meters long and 3/4 meters wide.
What is 1/2 square meters?
Jane has 3 yards of fabric. If it takes 1/8 of a yard of fabric to make a hat, how many hats can Jane make?
What is 24 hats?
Patrick has 5 pints of juice. He wants to put an equal amount of juice into 6 glasses, using all of the juice.
Write an equation which shows how to find the amount of juice, in pints, in each glass.
What is 5 ÷ 6 = 5/6?
Ms. Morris has 7 3/4 pounds of candy that she would like to divide evenly among 7 classrooms. How many pounds of candy will each classroom get?
What is 1 3/28 pounds of candy?
Ms. Kimmel used 2 cups of flour to make cookies. If she wants to make 1/2 of the recipe, how much flour will she use?
What is 1 cup of flour?
Suzzie has 4/9 pounds of candy and wants to take 1/2 of the candy to school. How much candy in pounds will she take to school?
What is 2/9 pounds of candy?
In 3 days Wilson eats 2 pounds of dogfood, how many pounds of dog food does Wilson eat in 1 day?
What is 2/3 pounds of dogfood a day?
How many pounds of jellybeans will each person get if 3 people shared 1/5 of a pound of jellybeans equally?
(Hint: you are sharing 1/5 of a pound of jellybeans among 3 people)
What is each person will get 1/15 of a pound of jellybeans?
William was conducting a science experiment in class. If he was given 1/3 liters of vinegar to pour evenly among 8 beakers, how much vinegar will be in each beaker? (Hint: draw a model)
What is 1/24 liter of vinegar?
What is the area of a stamp if it is 2 inches wide and 1/4 inch long?
What is 1/2 square inches?
Kevin has 2 liters of soda and drinks 3/4 of it. How much soda did Kevin drink?
What is 1 1/2 liters of soda?
Kim has 4 muffins, if she divides the muffins into 2/3 sections, how many 2/3 sections does she have?
What is 6?
Rowan had a pitcher of water that was 3/4 full. She wanted to put equal amounts of water into 3 small buckets. Write an expression (number sentence) that shows the amount of water in each bucket.
What is 3/4 ÷ 3?
Use an area model to calculate the surface area of a cell phone that is 6 1/2 in long, and 2 2/3 in wide.
What is 17 1/3 square inches?