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Art Club Sharing: Fractions as Division

Grade 5 fractions as division with art club supplies. Students share clay, ribbon, and paint equally and write each share as a fraction or mixed number.

Grade 5MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to5.NF.B.3

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12 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 5
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students interpret a fraction a/b as the division a ÷ b.
Students solve equal sharing problems whose answers are fractions or mixed numbers.
Students decide whether an equal share is less than or more than one whole.

How to use

Use after modeling one sharing problem with paper strips. Let students draw pictures for the first few problems, then solve the rest with division.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

5.NF.B.3

Understand a fraction as dividing the numerator by the denominator.

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Art Club Sharing: Fractions as Division

Share art supplies equally and write each share as a fraction.

Share the art supplies

Each problem shares things equally. Write each answer as a fraction or a mixed number.

Lena shares 3 blocks of clay equally among 4 friends.

3 ÷ 4 = block of clay for each friend

Five yards of ribbon are shared equally by 8 students.

Each student gets yard of ribbon.

Mr. Okafor pours 7 jars of paint equally into 2 big trays.

7 ÷ 2 = jars of paint in each tray

The art club has 9 sheets of poster paper to share equally among 12 students.

Each student gets sheet of poster paper.

Ines cuts 10 feet of string into 4 equal pieces for a hanging mobile.

Each piece is feet long.

Some students share 5 bags of beads equally. Each student gets 5/6 of a bag.

There are students sharing the beads.

Connect division and fractions

Choose, match, circle, and sort.

Which division problem has the same value as 4/9?

A. 9 ÷ 4
B. 4 ÷ 9
C. 4 × 9

Six students share 15 sticks of clay equally. Each student's share is between which two whole numbers?

A. 0 and 1
B. 1 and 2
C. 2 and 3
D. 3 and 4

Match each division problem to its quotient.

2 ÷ 5
5 ÷ 2
1 ÷ 8
8 ÷ 3

A. 2 1/2
B. 2 2/3
C. 2/5
D. 1/8

10.

Circle every division problem that equals 3/8.

8 ÷ 33 ÷ 86 ÷ 163 ÷ 1616 ÷ 6

11.

Each art table shares some blocks of clay equally. Sort each table by the size of one student's share.

3 blocks shared by 5 students7 blocks shared by 4 students2 blocks shared by 9 students10 blocks shared by 3 students5 blocks shared by 6 students9 blocks shared by 2 students