Many students inform me that their mom or dad assisted them with the assignment. What if questions usually provide instant challenges. Daily activities not only need to be engaging and challenging, but they must be real-life. This again is a challenge. If you're teaching unit pricing, why not use comparative shopping with items they like to buy.
Fractions are often a challenge to make real-life.
I have found that using pizzas and models has been successful. If students see a picture of a pizza and then you tell them they may have a third of it to share equally with their little brother they want to know how much pizza they're going to receive. They are dividing fractions, which will lead to the connection of multiplying fractions, without having any prior rules. Simply providing students with mathematical rules is not usually too successful because they see no real-life connection. Students must be provided with a variety of activities.