A Fraction Is Division

See 3/4 as 3 ÷ 4 by sharing 3 things among 4.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 66

Welcome to the Sharing Kitchen! Say 3 cookies are shared equally by 4 friends. There aren't enough for one each. So cut each cookie into 4 parts.
Each friend gets 1 part of each cookie. That's 3 fourths of a cookie for each friend.
Here's the big idea. A fraction is a division! The top is divided by the bottom.
That's why 8 divided by 2 is the same as 8 halves. Both are 4.

Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards:

5.NR.3.1 — Explain the meaning of a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b). Solve problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers.