Unit 4: Fractions
Mini-Unit 2: Adding & Subtracting Fractions
Lesson 2.4: Subtracting Fractions & Mixed Numbers
Strengthen your students’ understanding of subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with this 4th grade practice worksheet. Students use number lines and fraction strips to model the minuend, decompose whole numbers when needed, and write differences in simplest form.
Students will:
• subtract fractions with common denominators
• represent subtraction using fraction strips and number lines
• decompose whole numbers when needed to subtract a fraction
• simplify differences to an equivalent fraction
• write improper fractions as mixed numbers
• check subtraction using addition
Standards:
CCSS: 4.NF.3
TEKS: 4.3E, 4.3F
