Lesson 1 - Adding Similar Fractions in Simple or Mixed Forms

with Regrouping

PREPARED BY: GENELENE B. FERNANDEZ

Teacher 1
Bulihan Elementary School
DRILL

Give the simplest form.

 325483
10
20
15
10 89
What is the sum of this model?

.
In what instances in daily
living you encounter addition
of fraction and mixed
numbers?
Problem1
Mang Justo milked his carabao. He got 3 ½
liters of milk from one carabao and 4 1/5
liters from the other. How much milk did he
get in all?

• What are the given?

• What is asked?
• What number sentence can we use to solve the
problem?
Problem 2

What if the next day, he got 2 ¾

liters and 5 2/5 liters of milk. How
much milk did he get in two days?
GROUP ACTIVITY
What did you do to arrive at an answer
to each problem?
Add. Reduce the answer to lowest
term.

1 2 3 3
1) + 2) +
4 3 5 10

3 1 5
3) +2 + 8
4
Add. Reduce the answer to lowest
term.

4) 6 3 +9 1
8 2
7 2
5) 23 + 18
12 3
 Solve the problems correctly.

2
1. Tina spends hour 8
washing the dishes
and hour5 cleaning the kitchen.
How22 many hours does she spend
in doing all the chores in the kitchen?
 Solve the problems correctly.

3
2. Rey consumed 2 liters of white
4
2
paint and 1
3
liters of red paint to repaint

the fence. How much paint did he use

altogether ?
GENERALIZATION

How do we add dissimilar

fraction with regrouping?
• Adding dissimilar fractions with regrouping:
1. Use LCD to write equivalent fractions.
2. Add the fractions and add the whole
numbers.
3. When the fraction in the sum is
improper fraction change it to mixed
number.
4. Reduce the answer to lowest term
whenever possible.
Complete the pyramid by filling in the boxes with the
sum of of the two fractions below each box..

1 1 1 1
1 3 2 4
5 8 12 10
ENRICHMENT

1. Percy spent 1/4 of his money on a

food and another 3/10 of his money on a
drink.
a. What fraction of his money did he
spend in total?
b. What fraction of Percy’s money was
left?
2. Sally has a piece of cloth. She used 1/3 of
the cloth to make a pillow cover and
another 4/7 of the cloth to make a
tablecloth.
a. What fraction of the cloth was used
altogether for the pillow cover and
tablecloth?
b. What fraction of the cloth was left
over?
3. A container is 1/3 full of water and 1/4 full
of oil. What fraction of the container is
empty?
4. Kathy spent 5/8 of her money on books
and another 1/6 of her money on stationeries.
What fraction of Kathy’s money was left?
5.Carl used 2/9 of piece of string to tie a parcel
and another 1/4 of the string to tie a box.
What fraction of the string was left?