If 3 is greater than 2, then â…“ must be bigger than ½ — right? Wrong. As millions of students head back to school next week, more than half will use exactly that kind of thinking when faced with ...
Many children never master fractions. When asked whether 12/13 + 7/8 was closest to 1, 2, 19, or 21, only 24% of a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 US 8th graders answered ...
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 ...
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