Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Watch this video to review fraction addition. Fractions Task Carroll is making cookies. The recipe calls for ⅓ cup of white sugar and ½ cup of brown sugar. How much sugar will be in the cookies in all?Use the area below to show your work. You can open a text box and type (click on the bolded A) or you can draw your answer and label it using the pencil icon.Remember that you need to find a common denominator to add two fractions together. Think about the multiples of 3 and the multiples of 2.Step 1: Find a common denominator (Write out your multiples of 3, write out your multiples of 2, Find the common multiple)Step 2: Use the common multiple you found in Step 1 to create equivalent fractions for each original fraction (Remember: the common multiple is the common denominatorStep 3: Add the equivalent fractions you created in Step 2 Mixed Numbers Mixed numbers Watch the video linked above from Brain Pop about Mixed Numbers (username: ccpcs and password: popping3047) and then try the problems below. Match the mixed numbers by clicking on the circle and dragging it to the match (a line will appear connecting them). 3 1 (Three and one fourth) 5 1 (Five and one half) 3 2 (Three and two sevenths) Sort the numbers so that equivalent numbers are together. 2 1 5 10 2 3 3 6 30 12 7 2 1 2 3 14