Google Calculator is an online tool offered by Google that lets you use its website to do basic math calculations such as addition and subtraction. This is convenient if you are on a business trip or ...

Dividing a fraction by a fraction can be confusing. There’s something called the reciprocal — or a multiplicative inverse? — and at some point you have to flip a fraction or change something or ...

“Who would draw a picture to divide 2/3 by 3/4?” asked Marina Ratner, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

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 ...

Jamestown Public Schools recently held a Fractions Progression Workshop, which was made available to all teachers in third and fourth grade. Chad Bongiovanni, Jamestown Public Schools instructional ...

Helping students understand that fractions are numbers, and not "something different" using tricks and formulas, is a primary aim of the Common Core State Standards being implemented throughout ...