“What is a fraction?” asked Denise Pusateri, JPS mathematics coordinator, to a group of fifth and sixth grade teachers. The question may seem to have an easy answer but with the new Common Core ...

When two fractions have the same value, but have different denominators and numerators, they are called equivalent fractions. Equivalent means they are equal. They have the same value. This fraction ...

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 ...

Fifth graders at Valley Road School in Clark, learned different strategies to simplify fractions. To understand the concept students in Bryan Lowe’s class used benchmarks to determine where on a ...

Fractions and decimals are linked. They are both ways of representing parts of a whole. Even though they look different, fractions can have the same value as decimals and decimals can have the same ...