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Pet Shelter Feeding Time: Splitting Up Fractions

Grade 4 practice decomposing fractions and mixed numbers into sums with like denominators in more than one way, using pet shelter feeding stories.

Grade 4MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to4.NF.B.3.b

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way.
Students write a fraction or mixed number as a sum of unit fractions or whole-number fractions.
Students check whether a sum of like fractions equals a given fraction.

How to use

Use after students can add fractions with like denominators. Have them shade fraction bars to test each sum in Part 2, then work the review on their own and share their two ways for question 11.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

4.NF.B.3.b

Break a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way.

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Pet Shelter Feeding Time: Splitting Up Fractions

Break fractions into sums with the same denominator in more than one way.

Part 1: Scoops of food

Fill in each blank so the equation is true. Use the same denominator.

A bag of dog food holds 8 equal scoops. Volunteers feed 5/8 of the bag to three dogs. Biscuit eats 2/8 of the bag and Pepper eats 1/8 of the bag. How much of the bag does Luna eat?

5/8 = 2/8 + 1/8 +

Four cats each eat 1/6 of a can of cat food. Write 4/6 as a sum of unit fractions.

4/6 = + + +

This bar shows the 7/10 of a water tank the shelter used today. Fill in the blanks to show two different ways to break apart 7/10.

7/10 = 4/10 +
7/10 = 5/10 + 1/10 +

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