In previous lessons, students expressed a fraction as a product of a unit fraction and a whole number . In this lesson, students transition to seeing a fraction as a sum of unit fractions and non-unit fractions with the same denominator. Students see that a fraction with a numerator greater than 1 can be decomposed into sums in different ways. They write equations to record the decomposition (for example, ). Later, they write equations to represent addition of fractions with the same denominator.

Reflect on the times you observed students listening to one another’s ideas today in class. What norms would help each student better attend to their classmates' ideas in future lessons?