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Tailor Shop: Longer or Shorter After Scaling?

Grade 5 tailor shop scaling practice: decide if a fraction factor greater than, less than, or equal to 1 makes a length longer, shorter, or the same.

Grade 5MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to5.NF.B.5.b

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1 Common Core standard
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11 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 predict if multiplying by a fraction greater than, less than, or equal to 1 makes a larger or smaller product.
Students compare a product to one factor without multiplying.
Students explain why multiplying by a fraction less than 1 takes only part of a number.

How to use

Remind students to compare the fraction factor to 1 before they compute. Have them say each prediction aloud, then check one or two answers by multiplying.

Curriculum