Learn how to perform calculations to add fractions with BBC Bitesize Maths. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

From "fractions camps" to computer games, researchers are looking for better ways to teach a tough topic.

In addition to emphasizing fractions as points on the number line, the common standards differ from previous standards in other important ways: They delay arithmetic with fractions until students ...

In adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, you have to get a least common denominator which is exactly like the least common multiple it just so happens to be in the denominator.

Learning with TOI News: Fractions, often perceived as daunting, become manageable with the right approach. Addition and subtraction require finding a common denominator, whil ...

This article describes 1 prevalent practice that a group of 6th-and 7th-grade students engaged in when they used fractions in the context of area and perimeter, decimal operations, similarity, and ...

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 ...

In the program, called Academic Music, students first learn the basics of reading notes. Then, they learn how to add notes, which is essentially adding fractions.

Tim Heemsoth, Aiso Heinze, The impact of incorrect examples on learning fractions: A field experiment with 6th grade students, Instructional Science, Vol. 42, No. 4 (July 2014), pp. 639-657, 659-660 ...