Learn how to perform calculations to add fractions with BBC Bitesize Maths. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

It is also called simplifying the fraction. You often have to write a fraction in its simplest form. This means that you have to cancel it down until it cannot be cancelled down any more.

Students should also be able to add and subtract decimals to three places, add and subtract fractions with related denominators and write fractions in their simplest form.