On his website andertoons.com, illustrator Mark Anderson has a cartoon in which a boy is handing his teacher an assignment. “To show how well I understand fractions,” he says, “I only did half of my ...

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 ...

\(2 \frac{1}{2}\) is an example of a mixed number. This is when whole numbers and fractions are written together. Turn \(3 \frac{1}{2}\) into an improper fraction. The fraction in the mixed number has ...

Start by downloading the zipfile for the lab. It contains code for the Fraction class, a makefile, a set of driver programs and a test script. Note that the green boxes in this lab and in others are ...

We've shown you the entire overscanned frame so you can see the sprockets and the optical soundtrack The film explains how to divide fractions using a systematic approach. It demonstrates the process ...