Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Simple Fractions
This S.O.S. tutorial gives students a basic review of simple fractions. Follow the tutorial to refresh your skills involving simple fraction manipulations. Each section contains problems with links to the answers.
Other
Active Maths Limited: Adding & Subtracting Fractions: Whiteboard Resources
This is an excellent resource to visually illustrate adding and subtracting fractions by finding the lowest common denominator.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Add and Subtract Fractions Unlike Denominators
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 4
Browse resources related to fourth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Math Grade 5
Browse resources related to fifth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: All About Fractions
A comprehensive tutorial that contains the following operations: adding fractions, comparing fractions, converting fractions, multiplying fractions, reducing fractions and subtracting fractions. Explanations, interactive practices and...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Fraction Basics
Gives a very basic overview of fractions and their parts. Discusses adding, multiplying, and finding a common denominator.
Rice University
Fraction Addition: Who Wants Pizza?
Who wants pizza? Even better, who wants to add fractions? This website gives colorful examples to guide the viewer through fraction addition problems.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Skip Counting 2/8, 4/8, 6/8, 8/8, Who Do We Appreciate This
In this activity, students investigate skip counting to complete patterns with fractions. They also develop skills to add fractions.
Elias Saab
Math Drills: Fraction Operations Quiz #2
An interactive quiz which provides students with two (more challenging) fractions and a randomly selected operation sign between them. Students input their solution and have the program evaluate it. Hints are available if the student...
The Math League
The Math League: Decimals, Whole Numbers and Exponents
This tutorial has definitions and examples of decimals, whole numbers, and exponents. In addition, a variety of topics are covered, such as comparing, multiplying and subtracting.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Fractions
An extensive selection of teacher resources dealing with fractions at many different levels. There are worksheets, PowerPoints, smartboard presentations, activities, Excel, Word, and pdf files for the teacher's use.
Learning Wave Communications
Learning Wave: Fractions
This resource contains information about fractions and includes ratios, equivalent fractions, basic operations, and reciprocals. Several links for practice problems are also included, along with links to a post and pretest.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of adding and subtracting unlike fractions.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Adding and Subtracting Like Fractions
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of adding and subtracting like fractions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Making S'mores
The purpose of this instructional task is to motivate a discussion about adding fractions and the meaning of the common denominator. The different parts of the task have young scholars moving back and forth between the abstract...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Finding Common Denominators to Add
Part (a) of this task asks young scholars to find and use two different common denominators to add the given fractions. The purpose of this question is to help students realize that they can use any common denominator to find a solution,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Salad Dressing
The purpose of this task is to have students add fractions with unlike denominators and divide a unit fraction by a whole number. This accessible real-life context provides students with an opportunity to apply their understanding of...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Common Denominator
Learn the "easiest method" for finding the common denominator of two fractions with different denominators. View animated examples and look over the steps that it takes to find a common denominator and add two fractions.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Add Two Fractions Together
Use this "math solver" to learn how to add two fractions together. Simply type your equation in, and allow this website to provide the answer along with a complete explanation as to how it arrived at that answer.
That Quiz
That Quiz
ThatQuiz is an excellent assessment tool for teachers and students. At this site, teachers can create individualized or group assessments on a variety of math topics. Students take these practice assessments directly online and receive...
Other
Help With Fractions: Adding Fractions
The rules for adding fractions with the same or different denominators are clearly explained at this website. This is an excellent place to get step by step explanations for working with fractions.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Fractions & Decimals
This resource allows users to practice mathematical functions with fractions and decimals.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: "Make One" Operations W Fractions Game
This card game will help students review the basic operations with fractions. The materials needed, the rules of the game, and several follow-up activities are provided here for the teacher as a lesson plan.