Adding Multiple term Mixed Numbers
BackIn the produced worksheet, kids will solve problems involving addition of multiple term mixed numbers
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About this worksheet
Suits Years 5 and 6Three or more mixed numbers in one sum: 1½ plus 2⅓ plus 1¼, the sort of total a recipe or timber list produces.
The tidy method: add all the wholes, add all the fractions over a common denominator, then merge, letting any overflow fraction carry into the wholes.
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Common questions
What does an overflow carry look like?
Fractions totalling 13/12 hold a whole in disguise: pull out 12/12 as 1, add it to the wholes, keep 1/12. It is column carrying, spoken in fractions.
Wholes first or fractions first?
Either works; wholes first is friendlier because the big part of the answer appears early and the fraction work becomes a tidy separate job.