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Swim Team Practice: Fractions of Laps, Lanes, and Minutes

Grade 5 practice finding a fraction of a whole number or of a fraction by splitting it into equal parts, set at swim team practice.

Grade 5MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to5.NF.B.4.a

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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

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What students practice

Students find a fraction of a whole number by splitting it into equal parts and taking some of the parts.
Students find a fraction of a fraction by splitting the fraction into equal parts.
Students show that (a/b) × q has the same value as a × q ÷ b.

How to use

Use after modeling a fraction times a whole number with strips. Have students sketch a bar for each problem and mark the equal parts before they write an answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

5.NF.B.4.a

Understand multiplying a fraction by a whole number or a fraction as taking parts of a partition.

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Swim Team Practice: Fractions of Laps, Lanes, and Minutes

Split an amount into equal parts, then take some of the parts.

Split the whole amount

Split the amount into equal parts. Then take the parts you need.

Coach Rivera plans 20 laps. 3/4 of the laps are freestyle. The bar shows the 20 laps split into 4 equal parts. The shaded parts are the freestyle laps.

Each part is laps.
The 3 shaded parts are laps.
So 3/4 × 20 = .

The team has 18 kickboards. Coach puts 2/3 of them by the deep end. Which plan shows how to find 2/3 × 18?