Purpose
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.
Achievement Objectives
NA4-2: Understand addition and subtraction of fractions, decimals, and integers.
NA5-3: Understand operations on fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators
Description of Mathematics
Addition and Subtraction, AP (Stage 8)
Required Resource Materials
Practice exercises with answers (PDF or Word)
Homework with answers (PDF or Word)
Activity
Prior Knowledge
Add and subtract fraction with related denominators
Background
Before working on unlike denominators, students often benefit from working on fractions with related denominators, where one denominator can be changed to the other denominator.
Comments on the Exercises
Exercise 1
Asks students to use a fraction wall to simplify fractions and add them together.
Exercise 2
Asks students to solve word problems that involve adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.
Attachments
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