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Number Talks - Adding and Subtracting Fractions Task Cards

In Fractional Operations Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages Mathematics Process Standards

PDF | 24 pages|Grades: 4 - 6

Build fractional reasoning with this set of 24 task cards.

Use this set of task cards to easily implement number talks into your classroom.

Number talks are meant to be short, daily, math activities that allow students to have meaningful and highly engaging conversations about math. Simply show students the front of the card, and ask the prompts on the back. These exchanges will lead to the development of more accurate, efficient, and flexible strategies for students.

This card set is a great teaching resource designed to help students with adding and subtracting fractions with unequal denominators. It takes them through the process starting with visual models and ending with the standard algorithm. Along the way students are asked to solve the problem using fraction blocks, number lines, strip diagrams, and set models.

Print out the task cards front and back so that the prompts are displayed on the back of each card. The cards can also be put on a ring for added convenience.

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Number Talks Teaching Resource Pack - Grade 5
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Common Core

Common Core Curriculum alignment

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.A
Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.
In Grade 4 Standards for Mathematical Practice Number & Operations - Fractions Build fractions from unit fractions CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.A.1
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators. For example, 2/3 + 5...
In Grade 5 Standards for Mathematical Practice Number & Operations - Fractions Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions

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