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Get help with fractions today with Sylvan's elementary school math tutoring programs.

Based on your child's unique learning needs, Sylvan's caring and patient tutors create a personalized plan to help your child succeed in math. Contact us today to find out how we'll help your child master important grade-level fraction skills in elementary school.

First grade Second grade Third grade

Fourth grade Fifth grade

First Grade

• Identify equal parts of a regions using halves, thirds, or fourths
• Understand the meaning of fraction
• Identify one-half of an object

Second Grade

• Separate regions into parts using halves, thirds, or fourths
• Read, shade, and write fractional parts of a region and group

Third Grade

• Model and write numerical fractions
• Compare two fractions with like denominators using greater than, less than, or equal to
• Compare two fractions with unlike denominators represented by shaded regions
• Find a fraction of a number
• Add fractions with like denominators
• Model and write a mixed number

Fourth Grade

• Write equivalent fractions using pictorial representation
• Subtract fractions with like denominators
• Write improper fractions using pictorial representation
• Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
• Express improper fractions as mixed numbers
• Compare and order simple fractions and mixed numbers

Fifth Grade

• Express a fraction in its simplest form (lowest terms)
• Add or subtract fractions with like denominators
• Find the least common denominator for a pair of fractions
• Find equivalent fractions using multiples and factors
• Compare and order fractions and mixed numbers
• Add and subtract fractions having unlike denominators
• Express mixed numbers as improper fractions and improper fractions as mixed numbers
• Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators
• Add and subtract mixed numbers with unlike denominators
• Add and subtract whole numbers, fractions, and mixed numbers
• Multiply a fraction by a fraction
• Multiply a whole number by a fraction
• Multiply mixed numbers

At Sylvan, we'll build the skills, habits and attitudes your child needs to master fractions in elementary school. Contact us to learn more today!