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🧮 5th Grade · Math5.NF.A.1Unit 5: Adding & subtracting fractions

Unlike denominators with models

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🎯 Objective: Students use models to add fractions with unlike denominators.

Lesson outline

  1. Model 1/2 + 1/3 with strips: what size pieces fit both? Sixths.
  2. Rename and add: 3/6 + 2/6 = 5/6.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: 1/4 + 2/3.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

5.NF.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators
  • Estimate with benchmark fractions

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “Adding & subtracting fractions”

  1. Unlike denominators with models
  2. Common denominators
  3. Mixed numbers
  4. Estimate with benchmarks
  5. Fraction word problems

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