Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Product of a Whole Number and a Fraction

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore multiplication by modeling problems and grouping with manipulatives. This video focuses on multiplying whole numbers by unit fractions and modeling the problems with unit blocks.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Modeling Fraction Multiplication Using Arrays

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This video illustrates a word problem involving the multiplication of fractions using an array to model the solution visually. The problem involves puffins, arctic birds that live in colonies and fish to feed their young.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Keep, Change, Flip

For Students 6th - 8th
Watch and listen to an approach to dividing fractions set to hip-hop music. This video focuses on showing why when dividing fractions you should multiply by the inverse of the second fraction.
Activity
Hopelink

Hopelink: Teaching Percentages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can brush up on percentage skills with this lesson and calculate percentages using the "Percent Tricks method." For students to successfully use this method, they must have the ability to multiply and divide whole numbers.
Website
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Rational (Fractional) Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A wealth of resources to help you in planning classroom instruction on rational expressions: lesson plans offer guidelines for and examples of simplifying, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing rational expressions; practice...
Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiplying Rational (Fractional) Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this site to learn how to simplify rational expressions when multiplication is required. You can practice what you have learned using the problems provided.
eBook
Math Planet

Math Planet: Pre Algebra: Powers and Exponents

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Gain an understanding of powers and exponents by viewing examples and a video lesson. [1:06]
Handout
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Preliminaries: Rational Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that define rational expressions and investigate how to reduce a rational expression to lowest terms, add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational expressions.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Area of Rectangles With Fraction Side Lengths

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice computing the areas of rectangles that have fractional side lengths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Interactive
Cool Math

Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Snow Sprint

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Multiply with fractions to win the snowmobile race!
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N Rn Sums of Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to examine sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. One important property of rational numbers is that their decimals always terminate or repeat: using a slightly different formulation, a rational...
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Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Rational Expressions: Practice Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice exercise reviews how to reduce a rational expression to lowest terms and how to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational expressions.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Simplifying the Sum of Two Algebraic Expressions

For Students 6th - 8th
Simplify expressions with rational numbers using the distributive property of multiplication. This student-generated video focuses on using the distributive property to create equivalent expressions when multiplying by negative numbers...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Simplifying an Algebraic Expression

For Students 6th - 8th
Simplify expressions with rational numbers using the distributive property of multiplication. This student-generated video focuses on using the distributive property to create equivalent expressions when multiplying by negative numbers...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dividing Mixed Numbers

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students practice dividing mixed numbers. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.