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Fractions: Pass the Piece A 6th Grade Look at Fractions This unit is intended to help students understand the operations of fractions. Students will understand how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions. The students will strengthen their understanding through guided practice, independent practice, and working strategies through word problems.
 * Lesson Over View:**

1) What is a fraction and how do they relate to decimals? 2) How can we convert from mixed numbers to improper fractions and reduce to the lowest form? 3) Why do we us the keep, change flip method for division? 4) How do we see fractions in the real world thru word problems?
 * Essential Questions:**

Fractions are a key concept that students will use through their entire math career. Students are just beginning to learn the intricacies of fractions. At every level of math moving forward, fractions will be able seen. They will be in expressions, equations, slopes, and ratios and proportions, and everything else above and beyond calculus. Math is as deeply integrated into math almost as much as basic arithmetic operations.
 * Links to Subject Area Content:**

By the end of this unit students will understand all operations of fractions, what they represent, and how to concert to decimals and improper fractions. A major goal of this unit is to not only help the students learn fractions, but to help them learn real life applications through the use of word problems.
 * Skills / Behaviors / Knowledge**

1. Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem. //For// //example, create a story context for (2/3)// //÷ (3/4) and use a visual fraction// //model to show the quotient; use the relationship between multiplication// //and division to explain that (2/3)// //÷ (3/4) = 8/9 because 3/4 of 8/9 is 2/3. (In general, (a/b)// //÷ (c/d) = ad/bc.) How much chocolate will each person get if 3 people share 1/2 lb of chocolate equally? How many 3/4-cup servings are in 2/3 of a cup of yogurt? How wide is a rectangular strip of land with length 3/4 mi and area 1/2 square mi?//
 * Common Core Standard:**

(2) Students use the meaning of fractions, the meanings of multiplication and division, and the relationship between multiplication and division to understand and explain why the procedures for dividing fractions make sense. Students use these operations to solve problems. Students extend their previous understandings of number and the ordering of numbers to the full system of rational numbers, which includes negative rational numbers, and in particular negative integers. They reason about the order and absolute value of rational numbers and about the location of points inall four quadrants of the coordinate plane.

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