The typical American approach to teaching fractions can overemphasize procedures at the expense of understanding the relationships among numbers, which is needed for higher math, according to Lynn ...

Kevin Dykema, a math expert, shares key strategies for teaching the complicated topic of fractions.

Leave it a group of teachers to find a way to make fractions fun. The educators at We Are Teachers came up with the idea of using pool noodles as an easy, inexpensive learning tool to help ...

The government is funding new research on more effective ways to teach the often-dreaded subject. So long, pie charts.

We present a case study of teaching and learning fraction addition on number lines in one 6th-grade classroom that used the Connected Mathematics Project Bits and Pieces II materials. Our main ...

The present study contrasts mathematical knowledge that two sixth-grade teachers apparently used when teaching fraction multiplication with the Connected Mathematics Project materials. The analysis ...

Questioning the wisdom of teaching fractions to young students doesn't compute with people such as George Andrews, a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University and president-elect ...

The educators at We Are Teachers came up with the idea of using pool noodles as an easy, inexpensive learning tool to help students visualize fractions, which is often a challenge for many kids.