Visualising the Addition of Fractions

Alice Germain
Dr. Alice G. on Education
2 min readNov 1, 2019

Here’s a visualisation of adding fractions with different denominators with some wooden shapes.

We have:

Can you find the missing fraction?

For this, we can write equivalent fractions to one half and one third with the same denominator, for instance

And given that:

we find that

Also, we can show that

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Alice Germain
Dr. Alice G. on Education

Maths content writer, qualified ‘Physics with Maths’ teacher, , Ph.D. in Physics, mum of 2.