Grade 6 - Number
Standard 6.N.7 - Practice finding the fraction represented in a word problem.
Included Skills: Ratios
Extend understanding of fractions to improper fractions and mixed numbers. • Observe and describe situations relevant to self, family, or community in which quantities greater than a whole, but which are not whole numbers, occur and describe those situations using either an improper fraction or a mixed number. • Demonstrate, concretely, pictorially, or physically, how an improper fraction and a mixed number can be used to represent the same quantity. • Explain, with the use of concrete or visual representations, how to express an improper fraction as a mixed number (and vice versa) and write the resulting equality in symbolic form. • Explain the meaning of a given improper fraction or mixed number by setting it into a situation. • Place a set of fractions, including whole numbers, mixed numbers, and improper fractions, on a number line and explain strategies used to determine position. • Respond to the question "Can quantities less than 1 be represented by a mixed number or improper fraction?".