This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding and subtracting fractions - word problems.

The math learning center is an app and online platform that allows students to use manipulatives virtually. In this activity, students will use virtual manipulatives to add fractions with unlike denominators

This Nrich problem requires some simple knowledge of fractions and multiples and demands some strategic thinking. It may offer a good opportunity to compare methods between students - there isn't just one route to the solution. Note that there is no need to use algebra in this problem.

The focus of this task is on understanding that fractions, in an explicit context, are fractions of a specific whole. In this problem there are three different wholes: the medium pizza, the large pizza, and the two pizzas taken together.

This Nrich problem is useful for those pupils who are coming to terms with spatial representation of fractions where area is concerned rather than just length. Pupils' visualizations vary a great deal and this may prove very difficult for some and yet readily accessible to others.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about fractions with common denominators - word problems.

This Nrich activity is an unusual context in which pupils can consolidate recognizing, finding, naming and writing fractions. The rich environment also gives them the opportunity to identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually as a chain. Furthermore, learners will be adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominators and denominators which are multiples of the same number.

This Nrich activity engages the pupils in both a spatial and numerical context. It gives them also the freedom to choose how they go about it - visualizing in their head, using paper, string etc. that they have requested and/or making use of a spreadsheet. They can learn a lot from adopting one method and then realizing that an alternative method would be better.