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Grade 5 Math · World 7: Sharing Kitchen · Level 74
Whole Number ÷ Unit Fraction
Find how many 1/4s are in 5 with a drawing.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 74
- Now flip it. How many 1 fourth cup scoops are in 5 cups of flour? That's 5 divided by 1 fourth.
- Count the fourths. Each cup holds 4 of them.
- 5 cups hold 5 groups of 4. That's 20 scoops.
- Surprise: the answer is bigger than 5! We're asking how many small pieces fit, and many do.
Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards:
- 5.NR.3.6 — Model and solve problems involving division of a unit fraction by a whole number and a whole number by a unit fraction.