Dividing a Whole Number by a Unit Fraction

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

5

Overview

Explore division by modeling problems and grouping them with manipulatives. This video focuses on dividing whole numbers by unit fractions and modeling the problems with unit blocks. 

Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 5

MA19.5.15

Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.

UP:MA19.5.15

Vocabulary

  • Unit fraction
  • Whole number
  • Division
  • Dividend
  • Divisor
  • Quotient
  • Equation
  • Multiplication
  • Factor
  • Fraction models

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Contextual situations involving division with whole numbers and unit fractions.
  • Strategies for representing a division problem with a visual model.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use previous understandings of operations to
  • Divide unit fractions by a whole number and whole numbers by unit fractions.
  • Use visual models to illustrate quotients.
  • Create story contexts for division.
  • Use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain quotients.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • A variety of contextual situations are represented with division of a whole number by a fraction or a fraction by a whole number.
  • Quotients resulting from division of a whole number by a fraction or a fraction by a whole number can be illustrated and justified with a visual model.
  • The relationship between multiplication and division can be used to justify quotients resulting from division of a whole number by a fraction or a fraction by a whole number.

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

PBS

License Type

CUSTOM
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