Multiplying and Dividing with Fractions

Overview

Your student will be learning:

to estimate to solve mathematical and real-world problems involving division, including rounding and using compatible numbers.
how to multiply and divide whole numbers and unit fractions (unit fractions have 1 as the numerator).
how to represent and solve multiplication and division of whole numbers and unit fractions with objects or models.

to represent and solve multi-step problems using all four operations with whole numbers using equations, when a letter represents an unknown quantity.

Your child can watch video lessons to reinforce the foundational concepts of fractions.

Your child can view a lesson, use manipulatives, and answer questions about fractions.

Your child can create and perform operations with fractions in a competitive mode.

Websites
- Snow Sprint. This Arcademics game allows your child to compete in a race as they multiply fractions.
- Dividing Fractions. This Math Playground game requires students to divide fractions. (It does not always use unit fractions.) It requires students to answer with the simplest form. This game would be an extension of skills typically learned in the fifth grade.
Books
- The Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin by Pam Calvert. A fictional story that includes a mystery with multiplication of fractions.
- The Multiplying Menace Divides by Pam Calvert. A fictional story that includes a mystery with division of fractions.

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