I have created a two paged worksheet to support students in learning to add fractions with different denominators. It is aimed at lower ability students to guide them into recognising the need for searching for a common denominator without requiring them to find the common denominator themselves.
The sheet starts out asking students to colour in fractions of bars which are divided up into sections.
They then see that 1/2 and 1/5 can both be shaded on a bar with 10 sections. The bars are all of equal length to highlight this. There are then able to add them together.
The second side works through 1/3 and 1/4 using bars divided into 12.
I have left the document as word so that you can edit it as necessary.
The sheet starts out asking students to colour in fractions of bars which are divided up into sections.
They then see that 1/2 and 1/5 can both be shaded on a bar with 10 sections. The bars are all of equal length to highlight this. There are then able to add them together.
The second side works through 1/3 and 1/4 using bars divided into 12.
I have left the document as word so that you can edit it as necessary.
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