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Features

  • Two quick questions a ticket
  • An "I can" line and three faces for students to rate themselves
  • Write fractions as sums of unit fractions and break them apart two ways
  • Add on a fraction strip, and subtract with a jump on a number line
  • Rename fractions greater than 1, and add and subtract mixed numbers
  • Check an answer with benchmarks, write a sum in simplest form, and solve two short stories
  • Answer keys for every ticket

Skills Covered

  • A fraction as a sum of unit fractions
  • Break a fraction apart in more than one way
  • Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
  • Mixed numbers and fractions greater than 1
  • Add mixed numbers
  • Subtract mixed numbers, trading 1 whole
  • Check an answer with benchmarks
  • Fraction story problems

How to Use This Pack

Nine exit tickets, one for each lesson of the 4th grade unit on adding and subtracting fractions, in lesson order. Each page holds one lesson's ticket four times: copy the page, cut on the dashed lines, and seven copies give a class of 28 a ticket each. A ticket takes a few minutes at the end of the lesson. Students answer two short questions, then circle a face beside the lesson's "I can" line to show how sure they feel.

In the Classroom

Hand out the tickets in the last five minutes of the lesson and collect them at the door. Sort them into three piles (got it, almost, not yet) to plan tomorrow's small groups. On ticket 8.2 any two different ways that add up are right. Ticket 8.7 starts with 4 − 2 2/3: watch for students who trade 1 whole for thirds. Ticket 8.8 ends with a sum in simplest form, Virginia's part of the lesson; any class can do it by dividing, as in lesson 7.3. The unit test is a separate pack.

At Home

Use a ticket as a quick check after practicing a skill together. Ask your child to show 3 1/4 − 1 2/4 with paper strips cut into fourths.

Tips for Success

  • Add or subtract the numerators; the denominator stays the same
  • Add mixed numbers whole numbers and parts apart
  • Trade 1 whole for parts when there are not enough to take away
  • Ask "Is the answer more or less than 1?" before writing it
  • Keep the tickets for each lesson to see who has caught up

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 4.NF.A.2 Compare fractions with different numerators and denominators using common denominators or numerators, or a benchmark like 1/2; record with >, = or < and explain.
  • 4.NF.B.3a Understand adding and subtracting fractions as joining and taking away parts of the same whole.
  • 4.NF.B.3b Break a fraction apart into same-denominator fractions in different ways, like 5/6 = 2/6 + 3/6 = 1/6 + 4/6, and write the equations.
  • 4.NF.B.3c Add and subtract mixed numbers with the same denominator, for example by changing them to fractions or by using properties of operations.
  • 4.NF.B.3d Solve story problems that add or subtract fractions of the same whole with like denominators, using fraction models and equations.
  • 4.NF.B.4a See a fraction a/b as a copies of 1/b, such as 7/3 = 7 × (1/3), and show it with a fraction model.
  • 4.MD.B.4 Make a line plot of measurements in halves, quarters and eighths, and use it to solve problems that add and subtract fractions.

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4th Grade Adding and Subtracting Fractions Exit Tickets

Exit tickets for every lesson of a unit on adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators. Each page holds one ticket four times to cut apart, with quick questions on unit fractions, breaking fractions apart, adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers, checking answers and story problems.

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What’s Included

  • 9 exit tickets, one for each lesson of the unit
  • Each ticket four times on its page, to copy and cut apart
  • An "I can" line with three faces on every ticket
  • Answer keys for every ticket (18 pages in all)
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