When adding or subtracting fractions, you need to look at the denominator. If the denominator is the same, then you can just add or subtract the numerator. If the denominator is different, then you ...

Fractions, often perceived as daunting, become manageable with the right approach. Addition and subtraction require finding a common denominator, while multiplication involves directly multiplying ...

When learning to add fractions there’s a standard method they teach you in school: Make the denominator the same, and whatever you times the denominator by, also multiply the numerator by. You add the ...

If you were to add \(\frac{1}{2}\) and \(\frac{1}{3}\), it is hard to picture what the answer would be. Rewriting the fractions with a common bottom number, or denominator (in this case, \({6}\)), ...

“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.

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 ...

A year after he started his Ph.D. in mathematics at McGill University, Matt Bowen had a problem. “I took my qualifying exams and did absolutely horribly on them,” he said. Bowen was sure that his ...

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 ...

Join Ms. Askew for a Mystery Math Mistake. Can you find her division mistake? D.C is going to help us understand how to decompose fractions to make a whole number! Math Mights is available to stream ...