“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 fifth-grader’s understanding of fractions and long division predicts their knowledge of algebra and overall math achievement in high school, according to new research published in the journal ...

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 ...

Speaker: When you split a whole thing into parts you get fractions. When you divide a whole into 2 equal parts, you get 2 halves. Even if they don't look the same shape, if the 2 parts are equal they ...