# 6.NS.1 When Life Gives You Lemonade - Dividing Fractions Lab

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This Lab is designed to be a hands on partnered exploration of how we divide fractions. This is very much B.A. BEFORE the algorithm :) This Lab will require exposure to simple bar models (drawing a whole rectangle and breaking it into four parts to demonstrate 1/4 of the whole).

You can either run the lesson as a demonstration and have students follow along, or call up students to model the practice problems. Or partner students with their own set of materials (there is a ton of value in this). When I originally taught this lesson I used salt, and it looked like we were cutting drugs.... so I've changed it for TpT to lemonade.

I begin by explaining how realistic this lesson is. That once in college I really wanted brownies.... at 2 AM. And I had everything to make the brownies, the mix, eggs and milk. But the recipe called for a half a cup of milk, but I only had a 1/4 measuring cup. I needed to figure out how many 1/4 cup scoops of milk I needed so that I would have the half cup of milk. Dare I not screw up the brownies! (My roommates would have killed me!)

Each student pair will need:
A set of measuring spoons (ask them to bring in or borrow from your science department)
Two cups (label ahead of time Cup 1 and Cup 2)
1 piece of construction paper (this is so the lemonade won't go everywhere)

Lesson Includes:
Lab - broken into parts where we practice dividing fractions by fractions, whole numbers by factions and whole numbers by mixed numbers. This is all hands on exploration so the kids will be dividing fractions before they realize that they're doing so!
Exit ticket - I introduce this before the lesson and let the students keep it on their desk. It allows the learners to see what they are expected to learn at the end of the lesson
Homework - Applies the concepts from the lab
Answer Key - My keys are (almost) always handwritten, I make the effort to scan them in as there is value to see how solutions are thought out
Total Pages
10 pages
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Teaching Duration
90 minutes
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# 6.NS.1 When Life Gives You Lemonade - Dividing Fractions Lab

Subject
Resource Type
Common Core Standards
Product Rating
4.0
1 Rating
File Type

PDF (Acrobat) Document File

1 MB|10 pages
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Product Description
This Lab is designed to be a hands on partnered exploration of how we divide fractions. This is very much B.A. BEFORE the algorithm :) This Lab will require exposure to simple bar models (drawing a whole rectangle and breaking it into four parts to demonstrate 1/4 of the whole).

You can either run the lesson as a demonstration and have students follow along, or call up students to model the practice problems. Or partner students with their own set of materials (there is a ton of value in this). When I originally taught this lesson I used salt, and it looked like we were cutting drugs.... so I've changed it for TpT to lemonade.

I begin by explaining how realistic this lesson is. That once in college I really wanted brownies.... at 2 AM. And I had everything to make the brownies, the mix, eggs and milk. But the recipe called for a half a cup of milk, but I only had a 1/4 measuring cup. I needed to figure out how many 1/4 cup scoops of milk I needed so that I would have the half cup of milk. Dare I not screw up the brownies! (My roommates would have killed me!)

Each student pair will need:
A set of measuring spoons (ask them to bring in or borrow from your science department)
Two cups (label ahead of time Cup 1 and Cup 2)
1 piece of construction paper (this is so the lemonade won't go everywhere)

Lesson Includes:
Lab - broken into parts where we practice dividing fractions by fractions, whole numbers by factions and whole numbers by mixed numbers. This is all hands on exploration so the kids will be dividing fractions before they realize that they're doing so!
Exit ticket - I introduce this before the lesson and let the students keep it on their desk. It allows the learners to see what they are expected to learn at the end of the lesson
Homework - Applies the concepts from the lab
Answer Key - My keys are (almost) always handwritten, I make the effort to scan them in as there is value to see how solutions are thought out
Total Pages
10 pages
Included
Teaching Duration
90 minutes
Report this Resource
\$3.00
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The text passage describes a lesson plan for teaching students how to divide fractions through a hands-on activity involving measuring cups and lemonade. It includes details on the materials needed, the structure of the lesson, and additional resources like an exit ticket and homework.

TYPE: NO_QUESTION

The passage does not contain a specific mathematical question or provide an answer to a question. It is a description of a lesson plan and its components.