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, ...

An innovative, hands-on curriculum that combines music and math may help younger students learn how to do fractions, according to a new study. The music-based program, Academic Music, uses rhythm to ...

Jan. 29—DANVILLE — You could say Sydni Franklin's sixth grade math class at Danville Middle School is learning fractions the hard way — well, the hard plastic way. A few weeks ago, her students ...

There are some basic properties of whole numbers any 3rd grader can tell you: Each number is represented by a single symbol, and followed by a single successor. Multiplication makes a number bigger; ...

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 ...

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

When you multiply numbers together, you’re looking at how many groups of, or lots of, something you have. You can use this same thinking, when you are multiplying fractions. For example: \( \frac{2}{3 ...

Fairplains Elementary third-grader Railyn Satow puts together a cookie mix using fractions during the eighth annual Fractions Cooking Show at the school. (Photo by Brett Dunlap) PARKERSBURG — ...

Dividing into a given ratio. You can use bar models to divide amounts in a given ratio. For example, Isabel and Geraint share their savings of £96 in the ratio 5 to 3. How much money does each person ...

Fractions are enough to make you cry if you’re not a math whiz, but Microsoft Excel handles them very well. In fourth-grade math, you learned fraction basics: Fractions are a numerical representation ...

A few weeks ago, her students started studying fractions using a collection of rods, blocks and other shapes meant to show them how fractions look geometrically, not just as numbers on a page. These ...