Greetings From Mr. Foster

This Week we are continuing our unit in Fractions. We are in Chapter 7 of our Workbook. Our focus is the Introduction of adding and subtracting fractions.

Common Core Standards (click for all standards)

Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers

NC.4.NF.3 Understand and justify decompositions of fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100.

• Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.

• Decompose a fraction into a sum of unit fractions and a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way using area models, length models, and equations.

• Add and subtract fractions, including mixed numbers with like denominators, by replacing each mixed number with an equivalent fraction, and/or by using properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.

• Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions, including mixed numbers by writing equations from a visual representation of the problem.

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