Year 4: Adding and Subtracting Fractions (Lesson 1)

This is Lesson 1 of a four lesson Adding and Subtracting Fractions unit of work for Year 4 (although it is also suitable for year 5). In each pack you will find: Lesson plans (including for your TA), differentiated worksheets/activities (LA, MA and HA plus a challenge activity for deeper understanding/mastery), answer sheets for all activities and flipcharts for whole class teaching (in ActivInspire, PowerPoint and PDF format). Each pack will save you hours and hours of planning, resourcing, differentiating, finding challenging activities and generating flipcharts all for an amazing price. In addition, resources are uploaded in both PDF and Word format so that they can be edited to suit your needs.

Lesson 1 involves the children adding and subtracting fractions, first using visual representations and then without. The challenge activity: Missing number problems and adding visual representations where the denominators are different

Objectives covered in unit of work:
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number

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