Fractions Related To Division
Write a division expression. 1/9
What is 1 divided by 9
Three friends are going hiking. They bought a 4-pound tub of trail mix to share equally. How much will each friend get?
What is 4/3 or 1 1/3
A sandwich shop prepares large wraps and cuts them into fourths. Each fourth is one serving. William buys 5 whole wraps for a party. How many servings in all does he get?
1/4 divided by 2
What is 1/8
Write a division expression for the fraction.
10/3
Ten divided by 3
Write an expression for 7/8
7 divided by 8
How can you write 10/3 as a division expression and as a mixed number?
What is 10 divided by 3; 3 1/3
Draw a model of 2 divided by 1/6
What is teacher will check models.
1/5 divided by 5
What is 1/10
Write a division expression for the fraction.
11/17
11 divided by 17
Tell what fraction each person gets when they share equally. 5 friends share 8 apples.
What is 8/5 or 1 3/5 apples
Tell how much each person gets when they share equally. 2 friends share 3 apples.
What is 3/2 or 1 1/2 apples
Draw a model to find the quotient. 4 divided by 1/8
What is teacher will check your model.
Vinn, Corrie, Alexa, and Joe equally shared one-fourth of a submarine sandwich. What fraction of the original sandwich did each friend get?
What is 1/16 of the sandwich?
Write a division expression for the fraction.
7/9
7 divided by 9.
Tell what fraction each person gets when shared equally. Two friends share one bagel.
What is 1/2.
Tell how much each person gets when they share equally. 2 girls share 7 yards of ribbon.
What is 7/2 or 3 1/2 yards of ribbon.
Write and solve a division equation to find the number of 1/3 pound hamburger patties that can be made from 4 pounds of ground beef.
What is 4 divided by 1/3 = 12 patties.
Sue has 1/2 gallon of milk to share evenly among four people. How much milk, in gallons, should she give each person?
What is 1/8 gallon?
What generalizations can you make? Explain
4 divided by 1/2 equals 8.
1/2 divided by 4 equals 1/8
Dividing a whole number by a unit fraction is the same as multiplying a whole number by the denominator of the same unit fraction.
Dividing a unit fraction by a whole number other than zero is the same as multiplying the unit fraction by a unit fraction with a whole number as the denominator.
Missy says 5/6 equals 6 divided by 5. Is she correct? Why or why not?
No Missy is not correct because Missy reversed the 5 and the 6 in the division expression. 5/6 = 5 divided by 6.
Casey bought a 100-pound of dog food. He gave his dogs the same amount of dog food each week. The dog food lasted 8 weeks. How much dog food did Casey give his dogs each week? Give the answer as a fraction or a mixed number.
What is 100/8 or 12 1/2 pounds
Write and solve a word problem for the expression 8 divided by 1/2.
Sample what is. How many half-hour piano lessons can a piano teacher give in 8 hours?
Taryn says 1/4 of a cereal bar is larger than 1/3 of the cereal bar. Is she correct? Explain
What is no; 1 of 4 equal parts of an object is less than 1 of 3 equal parts of that same object.
Emily needs to buy fabric to make curtain panels for her windows. Each panel will be 4 feet long and 1/2 foot wide. Each piece of fabric that she can buy is 4 feet long and 2 feet wide. How many panels can she make from 1 piece of fabric?
What are 4 panels?