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How to add and subtract fractions

Description

An animated guide to working with fractions. Doctor Yvonne’s dating agency brings fractions together… and helps when they split up.

Classroom Ideas

Use to illustrate the concepts of equivalent fractions and lowest common denominator. Discuss with students that both numerator and denominator change when finding equivalent fractions and that when carrying out addition and subtraction operations only the numerator changes.