Lesson Plan

How Many Servings of Oatmeal?

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Here is another way to illustrate division of a whole number by a unit fraction. For this case, the problem is asking if there are so many servings per cup, how many servings are in a package of multiple cups. Learners are to model their solution and see how dividing a whole number by a unit fraction is the same as multiplying that whole number by the reciprocal of the unit fraction. A great exercise involving fractions. 

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  • Illustrates the division of a whole number by a unit fraction
  • Models fraction division
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