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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Strategies for Dividing Fractions Day 2 + Show What You Know

For Teachers 6th
What strategies do you have for dividing fractions? How do you divide 1 2/3 by 1/3? Students apply all that they have learned about dividing with fractions to divide mixed numbers by fractions for a second day.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Meerkatcher: Divide Fractions With Unlike Denominators

For Students 6th - 8th
The rascally meerkat gang is making a mess of the zoo. Divide fractions to dig the dirt and catch those 'kats! In this activity, students will focus on dividing fractions, starting with single-digit denominators and working up. This...
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Quia

Ixl Learning: Divide Fractions by Whole Numbers Using Models

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice dividing fractions by whole numbers with numbers using models.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Dividing Whole Numbers by Fractions

For Teachers 6th
What do you get when you divide 6 by 2/3? How can you connect this problem to multiplication? Students continue to make connections between multiplication and division and work to develop strategies for dividing whole numbers by fractions.
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: "Make One" Operations W Fractions Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This card game will help students review the basic operations with fractions. The materials needed, the rules of the game, and several follow-up activities are provided here for the teacher as a lesson plan.
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PBS

Pbs: Dividing a Whole Number by a Unit Fraction

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore division by modeling problems and grouping with manipulatives. This video focuses on dividing whole numbers by unit fractions and modeling the problems with unit blocks.
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Other

Chili Math: Divide Fractions by Converting to Multiplication of Fractions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Follow the examples showing the general steps on how to divide fractions.
Activity
Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Division by Zero in a Simple Fraction

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial explains why division by zero is undefined. Gives examples and practice problems.
Interactive
Visual Fractions

Visual Fractions: Fraction Division With Lines

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Once the dividend is correctly identified, a rectangle representing the divisor will appear. The divisor is the horizontal distance of the blue arrow. The program will not continue unless the dividend or the divisor are correctly...
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PBS

Pbs: Division of Fractions: Using Fraction Strips

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Model division by a fraction using fraction strips. This video focuses on modeling division of a whole number by fractions.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Dividing by One Half

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This task requires students to recognize both "number of groups unknown" (part (a)) and "group size unknown" (part (d)) division problems in the context of a whole number divided by a unit fraction. It also addresses a common...
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PBS

Pbs: Multiplying and Dividing With Negatives

For Students 6th - 8th
Deepen your understanding of multiplication and division of rational numbers. This interactive exercise focuses on the rules for finding the products and quotients of positive numbers, negative numbers, and fractions and then finding the...
Activity
Purple Math

Purplemath: Complex Fractions

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief lesson, including good examples, on complex fractions is provided by PurpleMath.
Lesson Plan
NumberNut

Number Nut: Breaking Down Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Discover fractions in the world around us in this lesson that also examines how fractions are divided. Detailed examples and pictures presented to explain this concept along with key vocabulary. A brief introduction to problem solving...
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The Math League

The Math League: Fractions

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial covers all types of fractions with simple explanations on how to work with them.
Website
US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math in the Home

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An excellent compilation of activities that engage parents and children in math explorations at home. Detailed lessons covering a wide range of math topics such as fractions, measurements, money, data collection, and math in newspapers....
Website
NumberNut

Number Nut: Working Beyond Arithmetic: Fractions and Decimals

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Review fraction concepts in this succinct but detailed overview. The lesson highlights decimals, fractions, percentages, estimation, and rounding concepts with related vocabulary. Use the Reciprocal Fraction or Rounding games to practice...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Mixed Numbers Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Do math calculations with mixed numbers (mixed fractions) performing operations on fractions, whole numbers, integers, mixed numbers, mixed fractions, and improper fractions. This calculator can add, subtract, multiply and divide mixed...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit Closure

For Teachers 6th Standards
What is going on in the problem? What are you trying to figure out? What kind of model could you create for this problem? Students apply the skills they have learned throughout Unit 4.
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Other

Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
College professor Dan Bach offers a review of various basic topics in arithmetic, pre-algebra, and algebra. Order of operations, exponents, square roots, variables, and combining terms are just a few of the many topics covered.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Middle School Math 6

For Students 6th
This all-interactive MSM 6 course is a complete and rigorous Grade 6 Mathematics course where the text is the support material, NOT the main content. The course includes instructional interactives, inline immediate-feedback (formative)...
Activity
Hopelink

Hopelink: Teaching Percentages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can brush up on percentage skills with this lesson and calculate percentages using the "Percent Tricks method." For students to successfully use this method, they must have the ability to multiply and divide whole numbers.
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiplying Rational (Fractional) Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this site to learn how to simplify rational expressions when multiplication is required. You can practice what you have learned using the problems provided.
Unit Plan
Saddleback College

Algebra2 Go: Prealgebra

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The resource consists of comprehensive learning tools such as class notes, video lectures, and templates through which students can review prealgebra topics.

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