Use visual fraction models to add and subtract fractions with the same denominators. Use visual fraction models to add and subtract fractions with the same denominators. Notice patterns in the ...

In adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, you have to get a least common denominator which is exactly like the least common multiple it just so happens to be in the denominator.

Fractions are a notoriously tricky part of elementary math education for many children. Too often teachers struggle to ensure students are grasping the conceptual underpinnings of this complicated ...

Learn how to perform calculations to add fractions with BBC Bitesize Maths. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

Then, they learn how to add notes, which is essentially adding fractions. Balogh is drawing the music notes on the board and adding them together. "How many eighth notes do you see?" he asks.

You use equivalent fractions to make them the same. A common multiple of 2 and 3 is 6. So, for each fraction we need an equivalent fraction with a denominator of 6. Now you can add these together.

Many children never master fractions. When asked whether 12/13 + 7/8 was closest to 1, 2, 19, or 21, only 24% of a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 US 8th graders answered ...

I called Geoff the Math Weasel and asked if I was correctly remembering fractions from way back in the third grade. I recalled that 97/103 as a fraction is darned near the whole thing, and that 3/ ...