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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 2

For Teachers 6th
How would you add 2 1/2 and 2/3? How would you find the difference between 2 1/2 and 2/3? Students continue to develop strategies for adding and subtracting fractions.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 1

For Teachers 6th
If Ashley ate 1/2 pizza, Tatyana ate 1/3 of a pizza, and Tiffany ate 5/8 of a pizza, how much pizza did they eat altogether? What's the smallest number of pizzas they ordered? How much was left? Students work to develop strategies for...
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions

For Teachers 4th Standards
Understanding that when the total number of parts of a whole are the same, fractions can be added.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Finding Common Denominators to Subtract

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Part (a) of this task asks students to use two different denominators to subtract fractions. The purpose of this is to help students realize that any common denominator will work, not just the least common denominator. Part (b) does not...
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Nearpod: Adding & Subtracting: Unlike Denominators

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders will learn how to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers using models and by finding common denominators.
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Lesson Tutor

Lesson Tutor: Fraction Addition and Subtraction Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site is an online lesson plan of how to correctly add and subtract fractions is provided here. Many examples of the processes are worked out and the solutions provided. An elementary teacher looking for some useful advice and...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Lesson Plans: Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teachers, this is the place to come for fraction lesson plans if you teach elementary students. All the topics have a number of resources available from which to choose.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Students add and subtract fractions using a common denominator.
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Better Lesson: Looking for Patterns + Show What You Know

For Students 6th
How would you solve 3 1/4 - 1 5/6? What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding? Students continue looking for patterns when they are adding and subtracting fractions and then they take a quiz.
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Intel Corporation

Intel: Fractions Made Visual

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students learn the importance of math accuracy and, more specifically, that knowing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions make life easier for everyone. To help students come to this understanding, they are assigned to a...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fraction Facts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to introduce middle schoolers to the basics of fractions including fraction operations and converting fractions both to decimals and percents. NCTM Standards are listed for this...
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Better Lesson: Unit Closure

For Teachers 6th Standards
What is going on in the problem? What are you trying to figure out? What kind of model could you create for this problem? Students apply the skills they have learned throughout Unit 4.

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