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First Grade
- Identify equal parts of a regions using halves, thirds, or fourths
- Understand the meaning of fraction
- Identify one-half of an object
Second Grade
- Separate regions into parts using halves, thirds, or fourths
- Read, shade, and write fractional parts of a region and group
Third Grade
- Model and write numerical fractions
- Compare two fractions with like denominators using greater than, less than, or equal to
- Compare two fractions with unlike denominators represented by shaded regions
- Find a fraction of a number
- Add fractions with like denominators
- Model and write a mixed number
Fourth Grade
- Write equivalent fractions using pictorial representation
- Subtract fractions with like denominators
- Write improper fractions using pictorial representation
- Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
- Express improper fractions as mixed numbers
- Compare and order simple fractions and mixed numbers
Fifth Grade
- Express a fraction in its simplest form (lowest terms)
- Add or subtract fractions with like denominators
- Find the least common denominator for a pair of fractions
- Find equivalent fractions using multiples and factors
- Compare and order fractions and mixed numbers
- Add and subtract fractions having unlike denominators
- Express mixed numbers as improper fractions and improper fractions as mixed numbers
- Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators
- Add and subtract mixed numbers with unlike denominators
- Add and subtract whole numbers, fractions, and mixed numbers
- Multiply a fraction by a fraction
- Multiply a whole number by a fraction
- Multiply mixed numbers
