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Dog Park Developers

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area
Mathematics
Grade
5

Students create a plan to build a dog park in their city or town. They will be given a plot of land and divide it into fractional portions depending on the features they would like to include in the park. They must describe how they divided up their land to developers in their pitch to have their design chosen.

MA Standards

5.NF.B.4
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.
5.NF.B.4.a
Interpret the product (a/b) × q as a parts of a partition of q into b equal parts; equivalently, as the result of a sequence of operations a × q ÷ b. For example, use a visual fraction model and/or area model to show (2/3) × 4 = 8/3, and create a story context for this equation. Do the same with (2/3) × (4/5) = 8/15 . (In general, (a/b) × (c/d) = ac/bd.)
5.NF.B.4.b
Find the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths by tiling it with unit squares of the appropriate unit fraction side lengths, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths. Multiply fractional side lengths to find areas of rectangles, and represent fraction products as rectangular areas.

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