What part of math was most intimidating when you were in grade school? Maybe it was fractions. Or even worse, long-form division. Somehow splitting numbers really seemed complicated. And the U.S.

ANN ARBOR -- What part of math success comes from knowing fractions? More than you might think, according to a new study that analyzed long-term data on more than 4,000 children from both the United ...

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 students ...

An innovative, hands-on curriculum that combines music and math may help younger students learn how to do fractions, according to a new study. The music-based program, Academic Music, uses rhythm to ...

Tapping out a beat may help children learn difficult fraction concepts, according to new findings. An innovative curriculum uses rhythm to teach fractions at a California school where students in a ...

The article “Approach to Fractions Seen as Key Shift in Standards” makes many good points. I have long been interested in math education in the United States and am currently serving on the U.S.

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

In the hope of finding out why humans find fractions so difficult, a new study attempted to test whether other species can understand them. 'Are our brains simply not built to handle quantitative part ...

Recent research finds that a solid grade school knowledge of fractions and long-form division accurately predicts later success in high school math. Christie Nicholson reports What part of math was ...