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 — ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In this math lesson, students learn multiple ways to add fractions and about bar modeling. In this lesson, students learn multiple ways to add fractions and how bar modeling simplifies word problems.

Tapping out a beat may help children learn difficult fraction concepts, according to new findings. An innovative curriculum uses rhythm to teach fractions at a California school where students in a ...

A lot of students begin by finding a common denominator for the dividend and divisor when dividing by a fraction. And a lot of teachers intervene by saying, “Remember, you only need a common ...

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 ...

Educational research indicates that error reflection, especially reflection on incorrect examples, has a positive effect on knowledge acquisition. The benefit of ...

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 ...