5th Grade Math Fractions
In 5th grade Number and Operations are covered in Base Ten and in Fractions.
We will focus on Fractions here.
5th grade math lessons begin to go into the topic of fractions with a bit more depth. Here are what 5th grades learn on the topic of fractions:
- Understanding the concept of a fraction as a part of a whole or a part of a set.
- Identifying fractions using proper notation, including mixed numbers and improper fractions.
- Compare fractions using symbols such as >, <, and =.
- Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators using the least common multiple.
- Multiplying fractions.
- Dividing fractions.
- Simplify fractions to lowest terms.
- Convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
- Fraction use in real-world situations, such as measuring and cooking.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.A.1| Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.A.2| Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.B.3| Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.B.4| Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.
Standards: 5.NF.B.4
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.B.5| Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Interpret multiplication as scaling (resizing) by:
- Comparing the size of a product to the size of one factor.
- Explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number.
- Explaining why multiplying a number by a fraction less than one results in a smaller number.
Standards: 5.NF.B.5
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.B.6| Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem.
Standards: 5.NF.B.6
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.B.7| Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.
Standards: 5.NF.B.7
