Vocabulary
You can decompose ___________________ addends into whole numbers and fractions in order to find the sum.
What is 'mixed number?'
What is 1/3 plus 1/4? Please answer in lowest terms (simplified).
What is '7/12?'
What is 2/3 - 1/7? Answer in lowest terms (simplify).
What is '11/21?'
What is the sum of 3 1/3 and 4 1/4?
What is '7 7/12?'
What is the sum of 3 2/3 and 4 3/4?
What is '8 5/12?'
To find the sum of fractions with unlike denominators, you can rewrite the fractions as _____________ with like denominators.
What is 'equivalent fractions?'
What is the sum of 3/7 and 1/3? Answer in lowest terms (simplify).
What is '16/21?'
What is the difference of 4/9 - 1/6? Answer in lowest terms (simplify).
What is '5/18?'
What is the difference of 4 3/4 and 1 1/3?
What is '3 5/12?'
What is the difference of 9 2/5 and 2 5/12?
What is '6 11/12?'
Use the _____________________ 0, 1/2, or 1 to estimate the sum or difference of fractions.
What is 'benchmark number?'
What is the sum of 1/4 and 3/5? Answer in lowest terms (simplify)?
What is '17/20?'
What is the difference of 6/11-1/4? Answer in lowest terms.
What is '13/44?'
Mrs. Williams bought 5 1/2 gallons of apple juice for the classroom party. She used 3 1/3 gallons during the party. How many gallons of apple juice does Mrs. Williams have left?
What is '2 1/6 gallons?'
Jolene hiked 4 3/4 kilometers in the morning. By the end of the day, she had hiked 9 1/6 kilometer. How many kilometers did she hike in the afternoon?
What is '4 5/12 kilometers?'
To make equivalent fractions, you must first find the ____________________ of each denominator?
What is 'lowest common multiple?'
A restaurant serves a pasta salad that is 2/5 pound pasta and 1/3 pound of vegetables. What is the total weight of a serving of this pasta salad at the restaurant?
What is '11/15 lb.?'
A company makes 2 sizes of trail mix: 4 5/8 pound and 2 3/4 pound bags. What is difference in pounds between the sizes of the 2 bags of trail mix?
What is '2 3/4 pounds?'
Timothy rides his bike 1 1/2 miles to school. After school, he rides 2 2/5 miles to his piano lesson, then 2 miles back home. How many miles does he ride in all?
What is '5 9/10 miles?'
Allison ran 8 5/8 miles last week. This week she ran 7 2/3 miles. How many miles did Allison run during the last two weeks?
What is '16 7/24 miles?'
To simplify a fraction, or reduce to lowest terms, you must first find the _________________.
What is 'greatest common factor (GCF)?'
Brianna is sending a care package to her brother at college. She has 4/7 box filled with snacks and 5/8 box filled with school supplies. Can she combine them and send them in 1 box? Explain your answer.
What is: 'she will need two boxes because both 4/7 and 5/8 are fractions greater than 1/2.'
Eddie had 3/4 quart of water for his soccer game. By halftime, he drank 2/5 quart of water. How much water does Eddie have left?
What is '7/20 quart?'
The combined weight of two wood planks is 6 3/4 pounds. The weight of one wood plank is 3 5/8 pound. How many pounds is the second wood plank?
What is '3 1/8 pounds?'
Todd biked 3 3/5 miles on Saturday and 4 1/7 miles on Sunday. How many miles did he bike altogether?
What is '7 26/35 miles?'