Unpacked Content
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.
Vocabulary
- Unit fraction
- Whole number
- Division
- Dividend
- Divisor
- Quotient
- Equation
- Multiplication
- Factor
- Fraction models
