Fractions in Everyday Life

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Fractions in Everyday Life

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Many students can test well on multiplying and dividing fractions, but when it comes to real life situations do not understand how to use their knowledge. This lesson plan invites students to adjust a cookie recipe by multiplying and dividing to change the yield.

Education Levels:

5, 6, 7

Subject:

Number Sense, Arithmetic, Applied Mathematics

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

The Math Forum

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Keywords:

Fractions, Recipes, Real-world applications, Conversions, Multiplication, Division, Cookies

Mediator:

Teachers

Language:

English

Learning Outcomes:

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010)

The Number System

Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers.

2. Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division and of fractions to multiply and divide rational numbers.

a. Understand that multiplication is extended from fractions to rational numbers by requiring that operations continue to satisfy the properties of operations, particularly the distributive property, leading to products such as (—1)(—1) = 1 and the rules for multiplying signed numbers. Interpret products of rational numbers by describing real-world contexts.

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