Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.

NC.5.NF.1 Add and subtract fractions, including mixed numbers, with unlike denominators using related fractions: halves, fourths and eighths; thirds, sixths, and twelfths; fifths, tenths, and hundredths.

• Use benchmark fractions and number sense of fractions to estimate mentally and assess the reasonableness of answers.

• Solve one- and two-step word problems in context using area and length models to develop the algorithm. Represent the word problem in an equation. Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.

NC.5.NF.3 Use fractions to model and solve division problems.

• Interpret a fraction as an equal sharing context, where a quantity is divided into equal parts.

• Model and interpret a fraction as the division of the numerator by the denominator.

• Solve one-step word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions and mixed numbers, with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12, using area, length, and set models or equations.

NC.5.NF.4 Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction, including mixed numbers.

• Use area and length models to multiply two fractions, with the denominators 2, 3, 4.

• Explain why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number and when multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number.

• Solve one-step word problems involving multiplication of fractions using models to develop the algorithm.

NC.5.NF.7 Solve one-step word problems involving division of unit fractions by non-zero whole numbers and division of whole numbers by unit fractions using area and length models, and equations to represent the problem.