How To Add Fractions For Beginners

adding & subtracting fractions, a la shmoop. have you ever known someonewho wants to be just like you? maybe the kid who livesnext door, or your little brother. or your stalker? maybe they noticed your sweet new plaid pants…… and decided to wear the same pair.

How To Add Fractions For Beginners, they do whatever they can to be similar……because they want to be friends. in a creepy sort of way. adding fractions sort of works the same way.if the denominator is different… …one - or both - of the fractions attemptto have the same bottom.

take 2/3 plus 1/6, for instance. in order to add the fractions, we need tomake the denominators the same. we do this by multiplying the top and bottomof the fraction by the same number. in this case, we take two-halvestimes two-thirds to get four-sixths. remember… two-halves,or 2 divided by 2, equals 1… … so we're actually just multiplying by 1. now the denominators are the same… … so we can add them.we get 4/6 plus 1/6 equals 5/6. it works for subtraction, too.

subtracting, we get 4/6 minus 1/6 equals 3/6…when we reduce, we finish with â½. sometimes both of thedenominators need to be changed. like 1/8 plus 1/3.what's the common denominator there? you have to multiply them.3 times 8 is 24. so we need to multiple 3 up here and get 3/24and 1/3 you need to multiply by 8/8... and you get 8/24. that gives us 3/24 plus 8/24. add the 3 and the 8, you get 11/24. voila! it's annoying when someone is copyingyou all the time… … but hey, imitation is thesincerest form of flattery.