Adding mixed numbers

 $2\ \frac{2}{3}+4\ \frac{1}{5}=$  ?

•  $6\ \frac{13}{15}$  

•  $6\ \frac{3}{15}$  

•  $6\ \frac{3}{8}$  

•  $6\ \frac{3}{5}$  

What is the first question you ask when adding mixed numbers?

• What's the common denominator?

• Does my answer have an improper fraction?

• Are the denominators the same?

• What are the equivalent fractions?

When adding mixed numbers with unlike denominators, what do you do once you have your equivalent fractions?

• Subtract the equivalent fractions.

• Add the equivalent fractions.

• Multiply the equivalent fractions.

how do you find the lowest common denominator?

You __________________ by the denominators of the fractions in the problem.

This is the answer I got after adding two mixed numbers.  $5\ \frac{4}{2}$ Am I done? 

• Yes, your answer is fine.

• No, you need to add a unit to the answer.

• No, you have an improper fraction in your answer.

 $1\ \frac{1}{2}\ +\ 2\ \frac{2}{3}=\ ?$  

•  $3\ \frac{3}{5}$  

•  $4\ \frac{1}{6}$  

•  $3\ \frac{7}{6}$  

•  $3\ \frac{3}{2}$  

The answer to a problem is

 $5\ \frac{6}{5}$  This answer has an improper fraction. How do we write it as a proper mixed fraction?

Convert this improper fraction to a mixed number:

 $\frac{13}{8}$  

 $3\ \frac{2}{3}\ +\ \frac{3}{5}=?$  

How do you feel you are doing adding mixed fractions?

• I usually get the right answer. I'm doing great!

• I almost always get the right answer. I'm doing pretty good!

• I sometimes get the right answer. I'm doing okay.

• I'm struggling to get a right answer. I need more practice and more help.