Dividing Fractions

Grades: 6th Grade

• Overview

• 6.4 Unit Overview

• Pre-Unit

• 6.4 Pre-Unit Check

• Sub-Unit 1: Introduction to Dividing Fractions

  Students reason about what it means to divide by a fraction and make connections between contexts, tape diagrams, and expressions.

• Cookie Cutter
• Division Meanings
• Flour Planner
• Flower Planters

• Sub-Unit 2: Dividing Fractions

  Students develop strategies for calculating quotients of two fractions, including the use of common denominators. Students then use what they know about dividing fractions to solve problems.

• Garden Bricks
• Fill the Gap
• Break It Down
• Potting Soil
• Division Challenges
• Action Fractions
• Swap Meet
• 6.4 Practice Day 1
• 6.4 Sub-Unit Quiz

• Sub-Unit 3: Area and Volume With Fractions

  Students use division and multiplication to solve problems about areas and volumes with dimensions that are fractions.

• Classroom Comparisons
• Puzzling Areas
• Volume Challenges
• Planter Planner
• 6.4 Practice Day 2

• End-Unit

• 6.4 End-of-Unit Assessments

• Resources

• 6.4 Lesson Practice
• 6.4 Additional Practice
• 6.4 Show What You Knows

• Differentiation and Personalized Learning

• 6.4 Differentiation and Personalized Learning