The film features a muskox named Lola who struggles with dividing fractions despite being intelligent in other areas of math. Her friend, Arthur the Arctic Fox, teaches her how to approach dividing ...

Dividing Fractions: When dividing fractions, you can achieve the same result by multiplying the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction. A fraction consists of a numerator and a ...

Students build the foundations for dividing a whole number by a unit fractions This lesson helps students build the foundations for dividing a whole number by a unit ...

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 ...

There are some basic properties of whole numbers any 3rd grader can tell you: Each number is represented by a single symbol, and followed by a single successor. Multiplication makes a number bigger; ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...