Adding with Fractions (Machine)

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Davidson Films S.F.

Complete Record: Illustrates through an animated story how to add fractions by using equivalent fractions and the partitioned-rectangle method. Shows a young boy visiting a professor and his “number renamer” machine which produces equivalent fractions. Gives examples of sums less than one and greater than one and concludes open-endedly with an unsolved example Presents a little boy who learns how to use a 'number re-namer' machine that manufactures equivalent fractions.