Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space, Student Activity Book [Grade 5]

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Investigation 1

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What Do You Already Know?

Answer the questions below.

  • 1 In one group, 2 out of 5 students are wearing glasses.

    • a. What fraction is that?

    • b. What fraction is not wearing glasses?

  • 2

    • a. Tyler cut his small pizza into sixths. He ate the whole pizza. How many pieces did he eat?

    • b. Alicia cut her pizza into eighths. She ate half of the pizza. How many pieces did she eat?

  • 3 In one class, 1 sixth of the students raked leaves while the rest picked up trash on the playground. What fraction of the students picked up trash?

  • 4 Name two fractions equivalent to 2 thirds .


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Puzzles, Clusters, and Towers Unit 2 Prisms and Solids Unit 3 Rectangles, Clocks, and Tracks Unit 4 How Many People and Teams? Unit 5 Temperature, Height, and Growth Unit 6 Between 0 and 1 Unit 7 Races, Arrays, and Grids Unit 8 Properties of Polygons