Adding and Subtracting Fractions – 5th Grade Curriculum Unit

⭐️ 5th Grade Math: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Unit ⭐️

Give your students a strong foundation in fractions with this comprehensive, ready-to-use unit. Unit 5 of the 5th Grade Math Curriculum focuses on adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers, guiding students from visual understanding to comparing and ordering fractions with confidence.

This resource is packed with detailed lessons, practice, digital assessments, and teacher supports designed to make planning easier and instruction more effective.

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✅ What’s Included:

• 14 Days of Content covering:
  Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators
  Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Un-Like Denominators
  Adding Mixed Numbers
  Subtracting Mixed Numbers (including re-grouping)
• Editable Guided Notes
  Traditional and fold-and-flip styles to support a variety of learning needs
• Engaging Practice Pages
  Perfect for classwork, homework, or math stations
• Pre-Assessment + Final Assessment
  All included as Google Forms AND printable versions for easy grading
• Daily Warm-Ups & Exit Tickets
  Quick checks to start and wrap each lesson with purpose
• Hands-On Activities
  Including a partner activity and an engaging end of unit task
• Editable Teaching Slides
  Warm ups, exit tickets and notes for whole-group instruction, ready to project or assign digitally
• Teacher Tools for Planning & Support
  Pacing calendar
  Tips and talking points
  Blank lesson plan templates
  Common misconception notes
  Binder covers and spine labels
• Student Tracking Pages
  Keep tabs on individual progress by standard, skill, or lesson

✅ Editing Made Easy:

• Editable Questions and Notes: Customize to fit your classroom needs. (PowerPoint required for editing).
• Non-Editable Elements: Copyright information, backgrounds, formatting, foldable templates, and graphics.

❤️ Why Teachers Love It:

• Content-rich lessons that go beyond worksheets
• Built-in scaffolding and extension opportunities
• Low-prep design – everything is ready to print or project
• Seamless mix of print and digital options

5th Grade Curriculum Units:

• Unit 1 – Place Value
• Unit 2 – Operations with Whole Numbers
• Unit 3 – Decimal Operations
• Unit 4 – Fraction Concepts
• Unit 5 – Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
• Unit 6 – Multiplication and Division of Fractions
• Unit 7 – Patterns and The Coordinate Plane
• Unit 8 – Geometry

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Licensing Terms :

By purchasing this product, you own a license for one teacher only for personal use in their own classroom. Licenses are non-transferable and therefore can not be passed from one teacher to another. If the teacher who purchased this license leaves the classroom or changes schools, the license and materials leave with that teacher. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire team, grade level, school or district without purchasing the correct number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal or district interested in transferable licenses that would accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a transferable license quote at lindsay@beyondtheworksheet.com.

Copyright Information :

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