5th Grade Task: Pizza Predicament
5th Grade Task: Pizza Predicament. This standard calls for students to extend their work of partitioning a number line from third and fourth grade. Students need ample experiences to explore the concept that a fraction is a way to represent the division of two quantities. Students are expected to demonstrate their understanding using concrete materials, drawing models, and explaining their thinking when working with fractions in multiple contexts. They read 3/5 as “three-fifths” and after many experiences with sharing problems, learn that 3/5 can also be interpreted as “3 divided by 5.”
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