PARCC Grades 3-5 Number and Operations—Fractions. Practice it free.

Students develop understanding of fractions as numbers and extend fraction equivalence and computation. This Grades 3-5 reporting domain maps to 1 practice skill and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grades 3-51 mapped skills

What the test measures

Number and Operations—Fractions skills

Develop understanding of fractions as numbers
Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions
Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers

Standards basis

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) / PARCC Model Content Frameworks — national

How the PARCC reports it

PARCC was a multistate assessment system built around the Common Core-era PARCC mathematics model content frameworks rather than a separate proprietary standards set. Its math structure is organized by grade/course and aligned to CCSS-M content categories and model content frameworks.

Blueprint & weighting

No single published PARCC weighting table was located in the accessible sources used here.

Official sources

PARCC Assessment
Common Core State Standards Initiative

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Adding and subtracting fractions

Grade 5210 questions

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8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

What is $\dfrac{2}{6} + \dfrac{1}{6}$ ?

$\dfrac{2}{6} + \dfrac{1}{6} = \dfrac{1}{2}$ .

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What is $\dfrac{6}{7} - \dfrac{2}{7}$ ?

Same denominator: $\dfrac{6 - 2}{7}$ . Result: $\dfrac{4}{7}$ .

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What is $\dfrac{6}{8} + \dfrac{4}{8}$ ?

$\dfrac{6}{8} + \dfrac{4}{8} = \dfrac{5}{4}$ .

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What is $\dfrac{5}{8} - \dfrac{3}{8}$ ?

Same denominator: $\dfrac{5 - 3}{8}$ . Result: $\dfrac{1}{4}$ .

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What is $\dfrac{3}{6} + \dfrac{2}{3}$ ?

LCD is 6: $\dfrac{3}{6} + \dfrac{4}{6} = \dfrac{7}{6}$ .

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What is $\dfrac{1}{2} - \dfrac{1}{5}$ ?

LCD is 10: $\dfrac{5}{10} - \dfrac{2}{10} = \dfrac{3}{10}$ .

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What is $\dfrac{1}{2} + \dfrac{3}{4}$ ?

LCD is 4: $\dfrac{2}{4} + \dfrac{3}{4} = \dfrac{5}{4}$ .

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What is $\dfrac{6}{8} - \dfrac{1}{3}$ ?

LCD is 24: $\dfrac{18}{24} - \dfrac{8}{24} = \dfrac{5}{12}$ .

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Source and test overview

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Reporting categories

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