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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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  • Single worksheet
  • Auto-graded online
  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 12 questions
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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

5.NF.B.3

Understand a fraction as dividing the numerator by the denominator.

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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.

1.
Three friends share 2 pancakes equally. Each pancake is cut into 3 equal pieces. The shaded pieces show one friend's share.


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 =  .

2.
Ms. Lopez shares 5 pancakes equally among 4 children.

5 ÷ 4 =   pancakes
As a mixed number, each child gets   pancakes.

3.
Omar pours 7 cups of orange juice equally into 3 pitchers. How many cups of juice go into each pitcher?

7 ÷ 3 =   cups

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