On his website andertoons.com, illustrator Mark Anderson has a cartoon in which a boy is handing his teacher an assignment. “To show how well I understand fractions,” he says, “I only did half of my ...

Using a calculator can help to complete fraction arithmetic but it is important to know how your calculator completes the calculations.

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 ...

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Just hearing the F word can cause kids (adults too) to freak out. And if you think about it, there are lots of reasons students feel flummoxed by fractions. For one thing, there’s the misleading ...

Why not try another fractions quiz? The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE maths students studying ordering fractions, using fractions, multiplying and dividing fractions, fraction ...

The Connecticut Common School Journal and Annals of Education, NEW SERIES, Vol. 3 (11), No. 11 (NOVEMBER, 1856), pp. 333-334 (2 pages) ...