Student Achievement Partners
Nctm: Sharing Chocolate [Pdf]
In this activity, students use chocolate bars to explore adding fractions with unlike denominators.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Add and Subtract Rational Numbers 2
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Salad Dressing
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rational Addition, Subtraction
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.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Common Denominator
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.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: A Rhythm Etic
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...