Over the past year, since I took over the common-core math beat, I’ve been thinking a lot about fractions. As I wrote in November, the Common Core State Standards for mathematics emphasize fractions ...

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The film features a muskox named Lola who struggles with dividing fractions despite being intelligent in other areas of math. Her friend, Arthur the Arctic Fox, teaches her how to approach dividing ...

Parents who are uneasy about their own math skills often worry about how best to teach the subject to their kids. Well ... there's an app for that. Tons of them, in fact. And a study published today ...

Duolingo is launching its math app to the public months after a beta version joined the app store. The math app, named Duolingo Math, is the first subject expansion that Duolingo has made beyond its ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

Students build the foundations for dividing a whole number by a unit fractions This lesson helps students build the foundations for dividing a whole number by a unit ...

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 ...

Many children never master fractions. When asked whether 12/13 + 7/8 was closest to 1, 2, 19, or 21, only 24% of a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 US 8th graders answered ...