“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.

The reason why people are divided is because there are two different ways of solving math problems. For the PEMDAS method you solve in the order of: Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, ...

The authors examined the thinking of children who had the opportunity to construct personal knowledge about division of fractions. The authors based this study on a teaching experiment design and used ...

You probably think you're smarter than a middle schooler. If you want to know for sure, try your hand at this basic math problem. It's harder than it looks — even if you think you have a solid grasp ...

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 ...

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (MTMS) is an official peer-reviewed journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for middle school students, ...