Complete lesson - adding and subtracting fractions

this lesson starts with a quick starter to collect in groups fractions which are equivalent. Then onto how to add fractions with same and then different denominators, including a little fill in box, for students to have lots of copies of for use in adding fractions by making common denominators.

There is a codebreaker for students to do which gives a maths joke.

2 worksheets, using perimeter to add fractions, harder version involves mixed numbers.