Curriculum placement
Grade 5. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
A fraction as division
Interpret a fraction as the quotient of two whole numbers
Problem types
- Share whole quantities equally
- Read a fraction as division
Builds on
- Division as sharing and grouping
- Unit fractions of a whole
- Dividing by a one-digit number · Earlier idea
A remainder in a division is a fraction of the divisor, so 17 divided by 5 is 3 and 2/5.
Leads to
Related skills
- Quotients from related facts · Shared foundations
- Line plots with fractional lengths · Shared foundations
- Fractions shown by a model · Shared foundations
- A fraction times a whole number · Shared foundations
- Fractions on a number line · Shared foundations
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