Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Reviewing Unit 1
Sixth graders participate in several activities to practice operations with decimals, fractions, and the distributive property.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit Closure
What's the best deal? How do you represent equivalent amounts? Students work on these questions as they wrap up Unit 2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: How Many Servings of Oatmeal?
This task provides a context for performing division of a whole number by a unit fraction. This problem is a "How many groups?'' example of division: the "groups'' in this case are the servings of oatmeal and the question is asking how...
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Fraction Multiplication and Area
This fifth-grade lesson explores the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths. We tile the rectangle with unit rectangles and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths. We multiply...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Connecting Multiplication and Division
How are multiplication and division connected? Why do 11 divided by 2 and 11 times 1/2 result in the same answer? Students make connections between multiplication and division and work to develop strategies for dividing whole numbers by...
Math Slice
Math Slice: Picture Fraction
This resource covers basic fractions and students can choose between a fractional whole up to eight or up to sixteen pieces. Students are given a pie chart and they have to determine what fraction of the chart is shaded. There are ten...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment
This lesson allows young scholars to practice writing and solving rates by conducting an experiment to find the best tasting Kool-Aid mixture. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Solving Problems "By the Hundreds"
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute site contains various math exercises relating to percentage and consumer-related problems. An explanation of sales tax, a related problem and answer are given.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Area With Halves
Fractions can be used to understand halves of a unit square.
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