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Snow Day Shoveling: Add and Subtract Parts of One Whole

Grade 4 snow day practice: add fractions by joining parts and subtract by separating parts of the same whole, using bars and number lines.

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Aligned to4.NF.B.3.a

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students add like-denominator fractions as joining equal parts of one driveway, path, or rink.
Students subtract like-denominator fractions as taking equal parts away from the same whole.
Students decide whether a story joins or separates parts and whether the parts share one whole.

How to use

Use after students can name fractions as equal parts of a whole. Have them shade or cross out parts on the bars, circle, and number lines as they solve each story.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

4.NF.B.3.a

Understand adding and subtracting fractions as joining and separating parts of the same whole.

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Snow Day Shoveling: Add and Subtract Parts of One Whole

Join and take away equal parts of the same driveway, path, or pot.

Join the cleared parts

Each whole is cut into equal parts. Add to find how much is done in all.

The driveway has 8 equal sections. Noah shovels 2 sections. Then Lucia shovels 3 more sections of the same driveway. The shaded part shows what Noah shoveled.

2/8 + 3/8 = of the driveway is clear.

Ms. Rivera's class packs down a snow path across the field. The whole path is 1. Amir packs down the first 3/10 of the path. Then Grace packs down the next 4/10 of the path. The dot shows where Amir stopped.

3/10 + 4/10 = of the path is packed down.
The part of the path that is not packed down yet is .

Which story can be solved with 2/6 + 3/6 = 5/6?

A. Eva has 5/6 of a mug of cocoa. She drinks 2/6 of the mug. How much cocoa is left?
B. Eva builds 2/6 of a small snow wall. Ty builds 3/6 of a much bigger snow wall. How much did they build?
C. Eva builds 2/6 of the snow fort wall. Ty builds 3/6 of the same wall. How much of the wall is built?
D. The snow fort wall is 3/6 built. A dog knocks down 2/6 of the wall. How much of the wall is still standing?