Have you ever tried to add or subtract fractions that have different denominators? It’s tricky, right? Join Ms. Susanna Post in this lesson to learn how to solve these types of challenging problems!

Hoping to help your fifth-grader with math skills? Here are some basic tips that experts suggest for fifth-graders. As the math they’re learning becomes more complicated and less obviously connected ...

There are two rules to remember when adding or subtracting fractions. The fractions need to have a common denominator. This means the denominator has to be the same. You only need to add or subtract ...

Back to School Without the Math Meltdowns Back to school in our house always meant one thing, controlled chaos.

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 ...

This lesson uses models to convert mixed numbers to improper fractions. This lesson uses models to convert mixed numbers to improper fractions.

When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

“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.

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...