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CPM Course 1 – Chapter 6

Dividing and Building Expressions

 In this chapter, students extend their knowledge about operations with portions to include division with fractions. The themes are dividing and building expressions. During this chapter:

  •  Students focus on making sense of the operation of division, relying on diagrams and reasoning, before moving to an algorithm
  • Students  find the area of a trapezoid and apply the order of operations to calculate it.
  • Students use algebra tiles to write expressions to represent the perimeter and area of shapes including combining like terms and evaluating.

Homework help for this chapter is here

Homework help offers tips, strategies and sometimes solutions for every homework question in this chapter.

Practice/Activities/Games

  • Parent Guide from CPM for this chapter is here
  • Khan academy videos on dividing fractions are here and area here