Adding Fractions

WALT: add fractions with different denominators.

 

Success Criteria:

1. First, you need to convert one of the fractions into a fraction with the same denominator as the other fraction.

 

e.g.  2/9 + 1/3 = ?

 

1. Now add them together by adding the top numbers (numerators). The denominators stay the same.

2/9 + 3/9

= 5/9 

1. Lastly, simplify the fraction if you need to, or convert the improper fraction into a mixed numeral.

In this example we don’t need to simplify.

Here is my example: 2/4 + 3/8 = ?

Have you done fractions this year?

 

Ka Kite,

Liam