Visual Fractions
Visual Fractions: Divide Fractions With Circles
Students explore dividing fractions using the given visuals. Click explain for additional help.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Fractions in Everyday Life, a Recipe
Math Forum offers this exciting instructional activity to help students with multiplying and dividing fractions through a recipe made in the classroom.
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Divide and Conquer
Explore how to divide fractions through multiple activities and the division of whole numbers.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Order of Operations in Fractions
Explains the order of operations in fractions. Gives examples and exercises to practice this skill.
Elias Saab
Math Drills: Fraction Operations Quiz #2
An interactive quiz which provides students with two (more challenging) fractions and a randomly selected operation sign between them. Students input their solution and have the program evaluate it. Hints are available if the student...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Fractions
An extensive selection of teacher resources dealing with fractions at many different levels. There are worksheets, PowerPoints, smartboard presentations, activities, Excel, Word, and pdf files for the teacher's use.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Adding and Subtracting Fractions With Different Denominators
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This video gives steps of finding common denominators and then adding and subtracting multiple fractions together. After the video, there are practice problems...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Mathopolis: Fractions
Ten interactive questions on adding and subtracting fractions. Each question is supported by a detailed explanation of the solution.
Learning Wave Communications
Learning Wave: Fractions
This resource contains information about fractions and includes ratios, equivalent fractions, basic operations, and reciprocals. Several links for practice problems are also included, along with links to a post and pretest.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Cnice: Las Fracciones
These are interactive activities dealing with fractions. A short test is also provided in each section.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of adding and subtracting unlike fractions.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Adding and Subtracting Like Fractions
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of adding and subtracting like fractions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ns Repeating Decimal as Approximation
In this lesson, 7th graders multiply and divide fractions to determine the repeating decimal.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ns Equivalent Fractions and Non Repeating Decimals
In this lesson, 7th graders determne how to find the repeating decimal using multiplication.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nf Do These Add Up?
This task addresses common errors that students make when adding fractions. Aligns with 5.NF.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Connor and Makayla Discuss Multiplication
The purpose of this task is to have students think about the meaning of multiplying a number by a fraction, and use this burgeoning understanding of fraction multiplication to make sense of the commutative property of multiplication in...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Making Cookies
This tasks lends itself very well to multiple solution methods. Students may learn a lot by comparing different methods. Students who are already comfortable with fraction multiplication can go straight to the numeric solutions given...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Half of a Recipe
This is the third problem in a series of three tasks involving fraction multiplication that can be solved with pictures or number lines. Aligns with 5.NF.B.6.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Running to School
This is the easiest problem in a series of three tasks involving fraction multiplication that can be solved with pictures or number lines. Aligns with 5.NF.B.6.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nf Running a Mile
Young scholars complete a task in which they need to use fraction multiplication. Aligns with 5.NF.B.5.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nf Comparing a Number and a Product
The purpose of this task is for students to compare a number and its product with other numbers that are greater than and less than one. Aligns with 5.NF.B.5.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: To Multiply or Not to Multiply?
Many real world problems appear similar. Even when children might know what operation to choose when the problem only involves whole numbers, they often are confused with fractions. It is also important for students to know that 18x25 is...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Making S'mores
The purpose of this instructional task is to motivate a discussion about adding fractions and the meaning of the common denominator. The different parts of the task have young scholars moving back and forth between the abstract...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Finding Common Denominators to Subtract
Part (a) of this task asks students to use two different denominators to subtract fractions. The purpose of this is to help students realize that any common denominator will work, not just the least common denominator. Part (b) does not...