Grade 5 Lesson plan
Perrindale Recharge Beds: A Grade 5 Fraction Area Lesson
A 45-minute grade 5 lesson finding the area of a fictional town's gravel recharge beds when the side lengths are fractions and mixed numbers of a yard.
Common Core Math · Grade 5
5.NF.B.4 Multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students multiply the fraction of a gallon each showerhead uses per minute by the number of showerheads in a building to find total flow, working with fractional rates instead of whole numbers. This fraction-times-fraction reasoning sets up the unit-rate work of grade 6.
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Lesson plans
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Copperfield Rain Garden: A Grade 5 Fraction Multiplication Lesson
A 45-minute grade 5 lesson where students multiply fractions by whole numbers and by fractions to measure rain captured by a fictional school rain garden.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Pennythorn School Garden Soaker Hoses: A Grade 5 Fraction Lesson
A 45-minute grade 5 lesson multiplying fractions and whole numbers to find how much water a fictional school garden's soaker hoses deliver in a watering.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Fernbrook Pool's Showerheads: A Grade 5 Fraction Multiplication Lesson
A grade 5 lesson where students multiply fractions to find a reduced showerhead flow rate, then scale it by whole numbers to find a fictional pool's daily water savings.
Math problem sets
Grade 5 Math problem set
Pellamy Notch Snow Course: A Grade 5 Line Plot Problem Set
A grade 5 problem set building a line plot from ten snow-depth readings in eighths of a foot, then redistributing the snow and finding the melt water.