A fraction is part of a whole. When you find a fraction of an amount, you work out how much that part is worth, compared to the whole. Here is a quarter written as a fraction. The numerator is 1 and ...

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 ...

Over the past year, since I took over the common-core math beat, I’ve been thinking a lot about fractions. As I wrote in November, the Common Core State Standards for mathematics emphasize fractions ...