5-E Lesson Plan

Your Name: Brooke Byrd Your E-mail Address: ebyrd100893@troy.edu

Grade Level: 5-6 Subject Area: Mathematics
Lesson Title: Adding and Subtracting Lesson Length:
Fractions with Unlike Denominators 45 minutes – 1 hour
THE TEACHING PROCESS
Lesson Overview
This lesson teaches students a method to help them add and subtract fractions
with unlike denominators.

Unit Objectives:
Students will be able to solve addition and subtraction problems involving
fractions with unlike denominators.

Standards addressed (AL COS)

ALEX 5th (2010) – 11.) 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. [5-NF1]

Example: 2/3 + 5/4 = 8/12 + 15/12 = 23/12. (In general, a/b + c/d = (ad +
bc)/bd.)

List of Materials
 Pencil
 Paper
 SMART Board (interactive whiteboard)
 Math Website http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/back-to-
school/games/game_action_fraction.html
 Worksheet
 Assessment

INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE
Phase One: Engage the Learner
Activity:

Call the students to sit in front of the SMART board in the classroom. On a math
website such as http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/back-to-
school/games/game_action_fraction.html, is a game titled “Action Fraction” that
will refresh the student’s memory on adding and subtracting fractions with like
denominators. Allow the students to come up one at a time to play levels 1 and 2 of
the math game on the board. (Levels 3 and so forth cover today’s lesson of adding
and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, which the students have not yet
been introduced.) However, students should have previously mastered how to add
and subtract fractions with like denominators, to be able to complete this activity.
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Adding and Subtracting

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