Adding Fractions and Mixed Numbers
1/5 + 1/3 =
What is 8/15 ?
Solve 3/8 - 1/4 =
What is 1/8?
What is 2?
Solve by showing the model and by using the algorithm: 3 divided by 1/2 =
What is 6? and the model of 3 wholes cut into 2 sections each.
The length of pencils in inches is as follows: 2 1/2, 2 1/2, 3, 3, 4, 4 1/2, 5. How many pencils measured 4 or more inches in length?
What is 3 pencils?
Jimmy was planting some tomatoes in his back yard. He planted 2/3 of the garden with yellow tomatoes and 1/6 of the garden with red tomatoes. How much of his garden has he planted?
What is 5/6 of the garden?
Sally is using two of her favorite recipes to make cupcakes for a party. The chocolate cupcake recipe needs 2 1/2 cups of flour and the vanilla cupcake recipe requires 2 3/4 cups of flour. How much more flour does the vanilla cupcake recipe require?
What is 1/4 cup?
What is 8/15?
Solve by completing the algorithm and showing the model: 1/3 divided by 3
What is 1/9? and the model of 1/3 divided into 3 equal sections, one of the sections will be 1/9.
The length of hours watching TV for 7 students is recorded below: 1, 1 1/2, 1 1/3, 2, 2, 2, 3 1/2, How many students watched less than 3 hours of TV?
What is 6 students?
Sarah went to the store and bought 3 1/4 pounds of apples and 2 4/5 pounds of peaches. What is the total amount of peaches and apples Sarah bought?
What is 6 1/20 pounds?
Jerry took 1 3/5 liters of Soda to a party. If Jerry drank 1 3/10 liters of soda, how much soda does he have left?
What is 3/10 liters of soda?
Solve: 7/8 x 2 =
What is 1 3/4?
Patrick has 5 pints of juice. He wants to put an equal amount of juice into 6 glasses, using all of the juice.
Write an equation which shows how to find the amount of juice, in pints, in each glass.
What is 5 ÷ 6 = 5/6?
Jillian planted 7 flowers seeds in her garden, she measured the height of the flowers in inches after two weeks as shown below: What is the "average" height of the flowers? (Hint: redistribute equally)
1/2, 1/2, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/2.
What is 5/14 of an inch?
Ms. Kimmel used 2 1/2 cups of flour to make cookies, 3 1/3 cups of flour to make a cake, and 3/4 cups of flour to make waffles. How much flour did Ms. Kimmel start with?
What is 6 7/12 cups of flour?
Jared had 4 5/6 cups of lemon juice, if he used 2 2/3 cups of lemon juice to make lemonade for his lemonade stand, how much lemon juice does he have now?
What is 2 1/6 cups of lemon juice?
What is the area of a rectangle if the length is 4/5 meters, and the width is 3/4 meters?
What is 12/20, or 6/10, or 3/5 square meters?
How many pounds of jellybeans will each person get if 3 people shared 1/5 of a pound of jellybeans equally?
(Hint: you are sharing 1/5 of a pound of jellybeans among 3 people)
What is each person will get 1/15 of a pound of jellybeans?
William poured some juice into glasses and wanted to serve them at his birthday party. His mom saw the juice in the cups and wanted him to redistribute the amounts equally into each cup. Help William find out how much juice should be in each cup. 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 3/4, 3/4.
What is 14/28 or 1/2?
Kevin is making two different types chili to bring to a Super Bowl party. One chili recipe requires 4/5 cup of tomato sauce and the other recipe requires 1 1/10 cups of tomato sauce. A. Estimate the number of cups of tomato sauce he will need for both recipes. B. Calculate the total number of cups he will need for both recipes.
What is A. estimate 2 cups, B. 1 9/10 cups?
Jillian made 2 1/2 pizzas to take to her friends house for movie night. While at the movie night 1 5/6 of the pizzas were eaten. How much pizza is left?
What is 4/6 or 2/3 of a pizza?
Jessica is learning about heredity. She wanted to know what portion of her class would have blonde hair with blue eyes if 1/4 of the students in her class have blonde hair and 1/3 of the class has blue eyes?
What is 1/12 of the students will have blonde hair and blue eyes?
Rowan had a pitcher of water that was 3/4 full. She wanted to put equal amounts of water into 3 small buckets. Write an expression (number sentence) that shows the amount of water in each bucket.
What is 3/4 ÷ 3?
Timmy put sand into buckets at the beach. His sister Jillian wanted to redistribute the sand equally among the buckets. Help them to find the amount of sand that should be in each bucket using the amounts below:
2/3, 2/3, 2/3, 1/3, 1/3, 1
What is 11/18?