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Arizona Math Standard: 5.NF.A.1

Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators (e.g., 2/3 + 5/4 = 8/12 + 15/12 = 23/12).

What’s the Pattern? Fraction Addition
What’s the Pattern? Fraction Addition
Can your students figure out how to add fractions by looking for a pattern?
Gr 1-5
How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction 234
How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction 234
How many different ways can you make this fraction subtraction statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 7
How Many Ways: Fraction Addition 234
How Many Ways: Fraction Addition 234
How many different ways can you make this fraction addition statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 7
How Many Ways: Multiply Fractions Equal 1/4
How Many Ways: Multiply Fractions Equal 1/4
One equation. Digits one through nine. How many ways can you make it work?
Gr 3, 4, 5, 7
How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction Equals 1/2
How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction Equals 1/2
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Numerator or Denominator: Which has more power in a fraction?
Numerator or Denominator: Which has more power in a fraction?
What do you do with students who already get their fraction operations? Give them a contrived project about recipes or pizza slices? Make them solve annoyingly hard practice problems? Please. Here, we get students thinking in a whole new way, pondering which has more power, the numerator or denominator.
Gr 2-6
How Many Ways: Fraction Equivalence
How Many Ways: Fraction Equivalence
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Fraction Ordering Tournament
Fraction Ordering Tournament
Which set of fractions would be the trickiest to order from least to greatest? Let’s have a tournament!
Gr 2-8
Fraction Puzzlers: Add and Subtract Fractions To Reach A Number
Fraction Puzzlers: Add and Subtract Fractions To Reach A Number
You only have six digits to form three fractions. Can you combine them to get to 0?
Gr 3, 4, 5, 7