In a gradual release of responsibility fashion, this video teaches students first how to add unlike fractions using a visual model where the common denominator is stated, then how to add them in the same way without a visual model, then how to find the common denominator on their own. [7:19]

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by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators, fraction addition, add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers), ccss.math.content.5.nf.a.1, math mammoth (youtube), common denominator

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Common Core

5.NF.A.1 4.NF.B.3.a 4.NF.B.3.d 4.NF.C.5 4.NF.B.3.b 4.NF.B.3.c 5.NF.B.5.b 5.NF.A.2