Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. Fractions are an important building block in students’ ...

For children to understand math, teachers must constantly make the connection between abstract numbers and real world examples, new research shows. If 3 is greater than 2, then ⅓ must be bigger than ½ ...

Identify and represent fractions (equal parts of a whole) using pictures and words. Explore the concept of fractions as equal parts of a whole. Identify and represent fractions using pictures and ...

Many students cruise along just fine in math until fourth grade or so. Then, they hit a wall—fractions. The wall is about to get taller. With mastery of the topic seen as a crucial stepping stone to ...

Earlier this year, a first-time academic author published a new mathematical study in the journal Research in Number Theory. The twist? The researcher, Christopher Havens, is also serving a 25-year ...

A recent study has shed new light on the Minoan system of fractions, one of the outstanding enigmas tied to the ancient writing of numbers. A recent study by a team based at the University of Bologna, ...

Estimation of the survival fractions of cells irradiated with various particles over a wide linear energy transfer (LET) range is of great importance in the treatment planning of charged-particle ...