Operations With Fractions

This is a great hands on activity to reintroduce fractions and make sure students are starting off with a strong base: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWnMtLBJZM
This can easily be extended to operations with fractions by having students add together different fractions and see what they make. They can explore why you don’t add the denominator when you add fractions. They can explore why you find a common denominator, and why it needs to be a multiple and not a factor.