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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 ...

\(\frac{36}{60}\) and \(\frac{3}{5}\) are equivalent to \(\frac{12}{20}\) . An equivalent fraction is the result of multiplying or dividing the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same ...

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 ...