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Pancake Breakfast Fair Shares: Divide to Make Fractions
Grade 5 practice seeing a fraction as division: share pancakes, juice, and sausages equally and write each share as a fraction or mixed number.
Grade 5MathInteractive · Printable
Aligned to5.NF.B.3
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What’s included
- Single worksheet
- Auto-graded online
- 1 Common Core standard
- Printable answer key
- 12 questions
- Classroom-ready
Details
- Format
- Interactive · Printable
- Grade
- Grade 5
- Subject
- Math
- Question types
- Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer
About this worksheet
What students practice
- Students interpret a fraction a/b as a ÷ b when sharing whole items equally.
- Students solve sharing word problems whose answers are fractions or mixed numbers.
- Students explain fair shares with models of cut pancakes and division equations.
How to use
Use after modeling fair sharing with paper circles. Let students cut or sketch pancakes for the first two problems, then solve the rest with division equations.
Curriculum
Common Core standard covered
Understand a fraction as dividing the numerator by the denominator.
Preview
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Pancake Breakfast Fair Shares: Divide to Make Fractions
Share food equally and write each share as a fraction.
Fair shares
Share each food equally. Write each share as a fraction or a mixed number.
One friend gets 1 piece from each pancake. That is pieces, and each piece is 1/3 of a pancake.
So each friend gets of a pancake, and 2 ÷ 3 = .
5 ÷ 4 = pancakes
As a mixed number, each child gets pancakes.
7 ÷ 3 = cups
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