Most people break out in a cold sweat when they see fractions. There's something about those little lines and numbers stacked on top of each other that makes even confident adults feel like they're ...

Fractions are the basis for most higher-level mathematics. Students need to master the numerical values in earlier grades to tackle topics like algebra later. There’s only one hitch: Fractions can ...

When you multiply numbers together, you’re looking at how many groups of, or lots of, something you have. You can use this same thinking, when you are multiplying fractions. For example: \( \frac{2}{3 ...

You can multiply a mixed number by an integer using two different methods. You can convert the mixed number into an improper fraction. An improper fraction has a numerator greater than its denominator ...

Students in some local elementary schools are learning a completely different way of doing multiplication. It’s a technique that many parents can’t understand. It’s called lattice multiplication. The ...