\(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\) \(\frac{\sqrt{6}}{2}\) \(\frac{5 \sqrt{3}}{6}\) Multiply the numerator and denominator by \(\sqrt{3}\). It is not wrong to multiply by \(2\sqrt ...

By Christopher W. Larimer, University of Northern Iowa Professor of Political Science. In a recent New York Times column, John Paulos, a mathematician at Temple University, discussed the difficulty of ...

Each fraction has the same denominator. Use the numerators to order the fractions. The smaller the numerator, the smaller the fraction. The numerators are all the same. Use the denominators to order ...

The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

Fractions are a foundational piece for tackling mathematics at all levels of schooling. Students need to understand how two numbers interact with each other as numerators and denominators, as ratios, ...

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 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 18, No. 9 (Sep. 15, 1932), pp. 594-597 (4 pages) ...