Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Maths - Fractions

This week in maths we have been focussing on fractions - how we can add them together and subtract them. We have learnt a really cool method to make sure we can add and subtract fractions with different denominators, e.g. 2/5 + 3/4 - the denominator is the bottom in the fraction.

Here is our very simple butterfly method!
Can you follow it to answer the questions below?

5/7 + 3/8 =

2/5 - 3/4 =


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