Menu
Search
Search
Don't lose your points!
Sign up and save them.
Sign up no thanks

Online College Courses

Online College Courses

All About Our Courses

Free Educational Resources

Teachers

Teachers

Classroom Resources
FREE Professional Development
Succeed with any tool, any platform, any software with PD courses from Teacher Professional Development
Students

Students

ACT Test Prep
Homework Help
Fun Self-Discovery Tools
+
Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators

Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators

Rating:
Rating
(0)
Author: Jackie Behr
Description:

This tutorial will show students how to add fractions with unlike denominators.  

(more)
See More

Try Our College Algebra Course. For FREE.

Sophia’s self-paced online courses are a great way to save time and money as you earn credits eligible for transfer to over 2,000 colleges and universities.*

Begin Free Trial
No credit card required

28 Sophia partners guarantee credit transfer.

263 Institutions have accepted or given pre-approval for credit transfer.

* The American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE Credit®) has evaluated and recommended college credit for 25 of Sophia’s online courses. More than 2,000 colleges and universities consider ACE CREDIT recommendations in determining the applicability to their course and degree programs.

Tutorial

Adding Fractions

To solve 1/6 + 4/6, we add the numerators and put it over the denominator.  1 + 4 = 5, so the sum of 1/6 and 4/6 is 5/6.  

 

What do we do if the denominators are different, such as 1/6 + 3/4 = ?

Unlike Denominators

open player in a new window

Adding Fractions

open player in a new window

Source: Kahn Academy

Get your feet wet or dive right in Create Account
© 2017 SOPHIA Learning, LLC. SOPHIA is a registered trademark of SOPHIA Learning, LLC.