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Student Achievement Partners

Nctm: Sharing Chocolate [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this activity, students use chocolate bars to explore adding fractions with unlike denominators.
eBook
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Add and Subtract Rational Numbers 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Salad Dressing

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is to have students add fractions with unlike denominators and divide a unit fraction by a whole number. This accessible real-life context provides students with an opportunity to apply their understanding of...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rational Addition, Subtraction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCard stack covers adding (or subtracting) numerators with simple to complex denominators. The set ends with sums or differences of rational functions with different denominators.
Unit Plan
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Common Denominator

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn the "easiest method" for finding the common denominator of two fractions with different denominators. View animated examples and look over the steps that it takes to find a common denominator and add two fractions.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: A Rhythm Etic

For Students 6th - 8th
Rock out to a musical demonstration of math involved in constructing rhythms from groups of beats in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students consider how the note durations comprising a measure in 3/4 time...

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