“Who would draw a picture to divide 2/3 by 3/4?” asked Marina Ratner, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

Fractions are a foundational piece for tackling mathematics at all levels of schooling. Students need to understand how two numbers interact with each other as numerators and denominators, as ratios, ...

This report details the development of a learning progression for the understanding of fractions. The intended use of the learning progression is to support formative assessment practices for children ...

Students will learn the basics of fractions when it comes to “a piece of the whole". In this introductory lesson to fractions, students will learn vocabulary, how to create and recognize fractions, ...

Fractions, often perceived as daunting, become manageable with the right approach. Addition and subtraction require finding a common denominator, while multiplication involves directly multiplying ...

Fractions are a notoriously tricky part of elementary math education for many children. Too often teachers struggle to ensure students are grasping the conceptual underpinnings of this complicated ...

Fairplains Elementary third grader Madison Coleman and her mother Ashley Coleman measure out cooking supplies during a cooking project at Fairplains Elementary School on Friday. (Photo by Tyler ...

Fractions can be ordered, just like whole numbers. These rules can help you order fractions. When ordering unit fractions: if the whole is the same, then the smaller the number of equal parts, the ...

The goal of this study was to describe fraction-calculation errors among fourth-grade students and to determine whether error patterns differed as a function of ...