Adding Fractions
Add. Express the sum in simplest form.
1/3 + 3/5
What is 14/15?
Subtract. Express the difference in simplest form.
1/6 - 1/9
What is 1/18?
Add. Express the sum in simplest form.
4 1/15 + 1 3/10
What is 5 11/30?
What expression is equal to 4/5?
What is 4 ÷ 5?
Ron used 3/5 pound of flour to bake bread and 2/7 pound of flour to bake cookies. How many more pounds of flour did he use to bake bread than cookies?
What is 11/35 pound of flour?
Add. Express the sum in simplest form.
3/4 + 1/12
What is 5/6?
Subtract. Express the difference in simplest form.
3/5 - 3/9
What is 4/15?
Subtract. Express the difference in simplest form.
9 4/7 - 2 1/3
What is 7 5/21?
What is 6 ÷ 9 in simplest form?
What is 2/3?
Steven ran 3/4 mile and then walked 1 4/5 miles to get to the park. How far did Steven travel to get to the park?
What is 2 11/20 miles?
Estimate the sum using benchmarks 0, 1/2, or 1.
8/9 + 5/12 + 1/6
What is 1 1/2?
Estimate the difference using benchmarks 0, 1/2, or 1.
7/12 - 5/9
What is 0?
Add. Express the sum in simplest form.
7 8/9 + 9 5/12
What is 17 11/36?
What is 10 ÷ 3 in simplest form?
What is 3 1/3?
Maya baked a chocolate pudding pie. She gave 1/4 of it to her friend and 3/10 of it to her sister. Maya saved the remaining pie for herself. What fraction of her chocolate pudding pie did she save for herself?
She saved 9/20 of her chocolate pudding pie for herself.
Add. Express the sum in simplest form.
5/6 + 2/8
What is 1 1/12?
Estimate the difference using benchmarks 0, 1/2, or 1.
4/5 - 3/8
What is 1/2?
Subtract. Express the difference in simplest form.
5 1/4 - 2 1/3
What is 2 11/12?
Share 30 brownies equally among 12 children. How many brownies will each child receive?
What is 2 1/2 brownies?
The height of Larry's Lego tower is 7 1/5 feet. The height of Darryl's Lego tower is 2 3/4 feet less than the height of Larry's tower. If they put their towers together, what will the height of their new tower be?
The height of their tower will be 11 13/20 feet.
Add. Express the sum in simplest form.
2/3 + 3/4 + 5/6
What is 2 1/4?
Subtract. Express the difference in simplest form.
1 - 5/6 - 1/12
What is 1/12?
Estimate the sum using benchmarks.
1 2/3 + 2 2/5
1 1/2 + 2 1/2 = 4
Ava has a piece of yarn that is 5 feet long. She cuts the yarn into 8 equal pieces. What expression shows how to find the length? What is the length of each piece?
What is 5 ÷ 8 = 5/8 feet
Lauren had 3 1/4 pounds of flour. She bought another 1 5/6 pounds of flour. Lauren planned to bake some cupcakes for a party. She needs 5 pounds of flour to bake the cupcakes. Does Lauren have enough flour? How much flour does she have left or how much more flour does she need to buy?
Yes, she has 1/12 pounds of flour left.