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 key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

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 ...

Learn how to divide whole numbers by fractions with simple steps! This math tutorial covers converting whole numbers to fractions, using the ‘flip and multiply’ method, finding the reciprocal, and ...

Why not try another fractions quiz? The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE maths students studying ordering fractions, using fractions, mixed numbers and improper fractions and fraction ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...