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Dividing Up the School Garden

Grade 5 practice dividing unit fractions by whole numbers with school garden stories, fraction bars, and multiplication checks.

Grade 5MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to5.NF.B.7.a

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1 Common Core standard
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13 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 5
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students divide a unit fraction by a whole number and write the quotient as a fraction.
Students solve garden word problems that share a unit fraction equally among a whole number of groups.
Students check a quotient by multiplying it by the whole number divisor.

How to use

Use after modeling unit fraction division with fraction bars. Let students sketch bars for the first section, then solve the stories and check each quotient with multiplication.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

5.NF.B.7.a

Divide a unit fraction by a whole number.

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Dividing Up the School Garden

Share unit fractions equally among whole numbers of groups.

Picture the garden

Use the fraction bars to help you. Write each quotient as a fraction.

The bar shows the whole garden bed. Room 12 gets the shaded 1/3 of the bed. They split their part equally among 4 groups. What fraction of the whole bed does each group get?

1/3 ÷ 4 = of the bed

Jada has 1/2 of a bag of soil. She splits it equally into 3 pots. Each bar is one whole bag. Which bar shows how much of the bag goes in each pot?