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Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
• Can Involves Many Steps• We will use LAPS to help us.• L – Look• A – Alter• P – Perform• S – Simplify
LAPS
• Look – Carefully analyze the problem.• Alter – Make any changes necessary to begin
solving the problem.• Perform – Perform the operation.• Simplify – Find and “pull out” the GCF of the
numerator and denominator.
Check with Fraction Bars
Examples
• 3 1/3 +8 1/3• 2 3/8 + 4 1/8• 5 1/5 + 3 2/5• 7 1/4 + 6 1/2 • 6 2/3 + 9 1/6
Apply SkillsPage 94
Problem-Solving ActivityPage 95
HomeworkPage 184
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