Primary school maths lessons are being toughened up, with children as young as five expected to learn about fractions. The initiative is part of government plans to make the curriculum more demanding ...

Heidi Aranda, center, from education company Math Solutions, holds up a poster detailing a fractional problem featuring cookies divided among students. The example problem was presented to third- and ...

Student Autumn Queen has observed frogs, bugs and flowers changing while attending J.C. Parks Elementary School.

This lesson starts to building the understanding of fractions at the 2nd grade level This lesson starts to building the understanding of fractions at the 2nd grade level ...

The very word fractions is enough to send a chill down a non-maths specialist's spine and it's safe to say the topic is fraught with misconceptions. Secondary school maths teacher Mel Muldowney points ...

How students are introduced to fractions in early grades affects how they approach more complicated mathematics—like algebra—in higher grades. It’s crucial that students learn how fractions behave ...

Third grade students at Dows Lane Elementary School are building a deeper understanding of fractions as part of Module 5 of ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Holding students’ attention while teaching them math isn’t the easiest task and sometimes teachers have to get creative to get the children involved. Slack Elementary teacher ...

Fairplains Elementary third grader Madison Coleman and her mother Ashley Coleman measure out cooking supplies during a cooking project at Fairplains Elementary School on Friday. (Photo by Tyler ...

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DreamBox Learning has recently extended its web-based K-3 math teaching tool, DreamBox Learning Math, with additional lessons and an intermediate learning platform for students in grades 3-5. DreamBox ...

Say you’re a teacher and you’ve created a bang-up lesson on how to teach fractions on the number line. Everyone in the faculty room loves it. Fellow teachers are begging for copies. Your principal ...