In this Blog post I’m going to tell you how to add fractions. Let’s go!
To start you will need a piece of paper/book. We’re gonna start off easy, let’s do 1/4 + 2/4. Once you’ve drawn this up you’re gonna plus the top number – 1 + 2 = 3. The top number is called the numerator. Now that we have done that we are going to do the bottom number 4. As the both of the bottom numbers are 4 you just leave it as 4. The bottom number is called a denominator. The complete question is this 1/4 + 2/4 = 3/4. Some fractions will be able to be simplified in this case it can not be.
We will now do a harder question 3/4 + 5/7. For this we will do the exact same thing with the numerator but not with the denominator. Let’s get started! 3 + 5 =8. 8 will be our numerator. The Denominator will need to be worked out with times tables. to start off you need to work out what 8 x 4 is, the answer to this is 28. Now you need to find out whether the is a number smaller than 28 that 4 and 8 can both fit into? In this case there is a number smaller they can both fit into. It is 16. Can is go any smaller??? NO! It can not. Now can you simplify it? YES! You can divide both these numbers by 2. We have now got 4 and 8. Keep dividing this by 2 until you get the most simplest answer which is 1/2. This is your answer.
We aren’t gonna go any further than this as we have already learnt so much. Thanks for reading. Let me know if you found this easy or hard.
