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Dividing Fractions: When dividing fractions, you can achieve the same result by multiplying the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction. A fraction consists of a numerator and a ...

“Who would draw a picture to divide 2/3 by 3/4?” asked Marina Ratner, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

A lot of students begin by finding a common denominator for the dividend and divisor when dividing by a fraction. And a lot of teachers intervene by saying, “Remember, you only need a common ...

Fractions, often perceived as daunting, become manageable with the right approach. Addition and subtraction require finding a common denominator, while multiplication involves directly multiplying ...

Dividing a fraction by a fraction can be confusing. There’s something called the reciprocal — or a multiplicative inverse? — and at some point you have to flip a fraction or change something or ...

Children wish to share a cake, but are confused when Numbler cuts the cake into different shapes. Are the pieces equal in size? Barky uses the basics of fractions and geometry to prove that the pieces ...

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 ...

The average eighth grader is now three years below grade level in math. How can they do algebra if they’re struggling to divide fractions? Credit: Jill Brady/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ...

Locate the fraction on the fraction wall. Draw a vertical line to the right of the fraction. Create a fraction wall by starting with one whole. Then create several ...