Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I found myself dealing with how to multiply fractions as ...

Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...

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When Julie Selsberg’s elementary school son and daughter have math homework, Selsberg reads instructions on worksheets and learns the math before helping her kids. “We do follow how they do it first ...

Fractions are the basis for most higher-level mathematics. Students need to master the numerical values in earlier grades to tackle topics like algebra later. There’s only one hitch: Fractions can ...

The film features a muskox named Lola who struggles with dividing fractions despite being intelligent in other areas of math. Her friend, Arthur the Arctic Fox, teaches her how to approach dividing ...

This Design Idea presents a method for fast integer multiplying and multiplying by fractions. What can you do when you lack access to a hardware multiplier or MAC (multiply/accumulate) function and ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...