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Multiply fractions: 5th grade math

Multiply fraction × fraction; area with fractional sides. A free 5th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: multiply fraction × fraction; area with fractional sides.

Teach (10 min)

  • Multiply the tops and multiply the bottoms.
  • The overlap in the area picture is the answer.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/numsense.g5_fracMul?lesson=5-numsense-fracmul-1&at=5

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. 4 × 2/5 = ? (A fraction or a mixed number.)
  • 2. 9 × 1/4 = ? (A fraction or a mixed number.)
  • 3. 3 × 3/4 = ? (A fraction or a mixed number.)

Question set

4 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. 4 × 2/5 = ? (A fraction or a mixed number.)
  2. 9 × 1/4 = ? (A fraction or a mixed number.)
  3. 3 × 3/4 = ? (A fraction or a mixed number.)
  4. 8 × 1/3 = ? (A fraction or a mixed number.)
Answers
  1. 1 3/5
  2. 2 1/4
  3. 2 1/4
  4. 2 2/3

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Multiply fractions (5th grade)

  1. 1/2 × 1/3 = ? (The picture shows 1/2 across and 1/3 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  2. 1/3 × 3/4 = ? (The picture shows 1/3 across and 3/4 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  3. 3/4 × 1/2 = ? (The picture shows 3/4 across and 1/2 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  4. 1/2 × 3/4 = ? (The picture shows 1/2 across and 3/4 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  5. 3/4 × 4/5 = ? (The picture shows 3/4 across and 4/5 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  6. 3/4 × 1/4 = ? (The picture shows 3/4 across and 1/4 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  7. 2/8 × 1/4 = ? (The picture shows 2/8 across and 1/4 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  8. 4/8 × 2/3 = ? (The picture shows 4/8 across and 2/3 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  9. 1/3 × 2/6 = ? (The picture shows 1/3 across and 2/6 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  10. 7 × 6/8 = ? (A fraction or a mixed number.)
  11. 3/4 × 2/3 = ? (The picture shows 3/4 across and 2/3 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
  12. 4/7 of 4/7 = ? (The picture shows 4/7 across and 4/7 down. Where they overlap is the answer.) (Any fraction with the right value counts.)
Key
  1. 1/6
  2. 1/4
  3. 3/8
  4. 3/8
  5. 3/5
  6. 3/16
  7. 1/16
  8. 1/3
  9. 1/9
  10. 5 1/4
  11. 1/2
  12. 16/49

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