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

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DAILY PRACTICE

Practice Dividing Fractions

Solve these problems. Use a representation and write an equation for each one.

  • 1 4 friends equally share half of a pizza. How much of the whole pizza does each friend get?

  • 2 3 people equally share 1 fifth of a pan of brownies. How much of the whole pan of brownies does each person get?

  • 3 Mitch has 6 cups of unpopped popcorn. He uses 1 third of a cup to make one serving of popcorn. How many servings of popcorn can he make?

  • 4 Georgia has 9 cups of flour. She needs 1 fifth of a cup of flour to make 1 muffin. How many muffins can she make?

NOTE

Students solve division problems involving unit fractions and whole numbers.

MWI Dividing a Whole Number by a Unit Fraction; Dividing a Fraction by a Whole Number


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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