Guided Practice
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Real-World Connections Most people eagerly anticipate eating their favorite food. However, did you know that cooking involves understanding fractions? Recipes require precise ingredient measurements, often involving fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals. Many different professions use fractions, such as chefs, carpenters, seamstresses, engineers, and construction workers. In this lesson, you will learn how to add and subtract fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals. Vocabulary addition the process of combining two or more addends together to find the total or sum subtraction the process of finding the difference between two numbers area models models using area to show multiplication number line a line in which numbers are marked at intervals like fractions fractions that have the same denominators denominator the bottom number of a fraction that tells how many equal parts are in a whole numerator the top number of a fraction that tells how many parts of a whole are being considered least common multiple the least common number other than zero that is a multiple of two or more given numbers (LCM) least common denominator the least common multiple of two or more denominators (LCD) improper fractions a fraction in which the numerator is greater than or equal to the denominator 5.N.3.2 Illustrate addition and subtraction of fractions with like and unlike denominators, mixed numbers, and decimals using a variety mathematical models (e.g., fraction strips, area models, number lines, fraction rods).
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