Subject: Numbers and Operations Fractions

Skills: Collaborate and use the "language" of math Model with mathematics and attend to precision Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with ...

Description: Do your 4th graders need more practice with adding fractions?  We thought so...grab this lightly scripted, interactive 1 hour lesson for your students.  They will:

• Collaborate and use the "language" of math
• Model with mathematics and attend to precision
• Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100
  • Use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100.
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NF.5, MP2, MP4, MP6

Skills: Collaborate and use the "language" of math Look for and make use of structure Review the key ideas expressed and explain their own ideas and ...

Description: Helping our 4th graders truly understand place value while comparing multiplication equations is foundational to applying the skill to more complex problems.  In this interactive, lightly scripted lesson (60-90 minutes) your students will:

• Collaborate and use the "language" of math
  • Look for and make use of structure
  • Review the key ideas expressed and explain their own ideas and understanding
• Apply the skill of interpreting multiplication to a real-life application
• Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison
• Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations
• Demonstrate their understanding by playing the game " I Have... Who Has...?"  to practice multiplicative comparisons
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.OA.1, MP 7, SL.4.1.D

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of division & attend to precision Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them Solve real world ...

Description: Use this interactive and lightly scripted lesson as a tool for demonstrated the real-life applications of fractions.  Your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of division & attend to precision
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
• Solve real world problems involving multiplications of fractions and mixed numbers (e.g. by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem)
• Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions based on the process and solutions to a problem
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine instructional next steps

CCSS: 5.NF.6, MP1, SL.5.1.D

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of division & attend to precision Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them Apply and extend ...

Description: Use this 1 hour as review, practice or formative assessment for dividing whole numbers by unit fractions.  In this scripted 1 hour lesson, your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of division & attend to precision
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
• Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions
• Interpret division of a unit fraction by a non-zero whole number, and compute such quotients
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine instructional next steps

CCSS: 5.NF.7, MP1, MP6

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions & multiplication, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively Make sense of problems and persevere ...

Description: Practice, review or introduce multiplication of fractions by whole numbers with this engaging and scripted 1 hour lesson.  Multiple opportunities to practice with different strategies and partners helps to solidify your students understanding of the "why" of this process.  Your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of fractions & multiplication, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
• Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction
• Using pictures, number lines and repeated addition to multiply fractions by whole numbers
• Using number lines to multiply fractions by whole numbers
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine instructional next steps

CCSS: 5.NF.4, MP1, MP2, MP4, MP6, MP8

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively Practice using the area model, repeated subtraction and ...

Description: Practice, review or introduce the concept of area model division with this interactive and scripted 1 hour lesson.  Your 5th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math, attend to precision and reason abstractly & quantitatively
• Practice using the area model, repeated subtraction and mental math to find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors
• Demonstrate their understanding of these skills by playing a game to create and solve problems in teams
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine instructional next steps

CCSS: 5.NBT.6, MP2, MP4, MP6, MP7, & MP8