Fill the Gap

Students extend strategies they developed in Lessons 3 and 5 to calculate an unknown number of groups when there is less than `1` group. This lesson also invites students to break each fraction into equal-size pieces, which sets the groundwork for creating common denominators in Lesson 7.

By Desmos Classroom

Learning goals: Learning Goals • Determine whether the number of groups in a division problem is greater than or less than `1`. • Use tape diagrams with common denominators to solve division problems asking "how many groups?"