MA19.5.15
Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.
Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Contextual situations involving division with whole numbers and unit fractions.
- Strategies for representing a division problem with a visual model.
Skills
- 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
- 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.
Vocabulary
- Unit fraction
- Whole number
- Division
- Dividend
- Divisor
- Quotient
- Equation
- Multiplication
- Factor
- Fraction models