Two apples plus three apples equals five apples, one banana plus three bananas equals four bananas and two apples plus three bananas cannot equal five banapples- this is part of a local math learning ...

Zap Zap Fractions is an iPad and iPhone math app for children that manages to be both instructional and beautiful. When I saw the game demoed by its creators, Malaysia-based Visual Math Studio, at the ...

“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.

From factory workers to Wall Street bankers, a reasonable proficiency in math is a crucial requirement for most well-paying jobs in a modern economy. Yet, over the past 30 years, mathematics ...

The authors summarize findings from hundreds of interviews with children about fractions by reporting a typical study involving 20 randomly selected sixth graders. Initial activities in 45-minute ...