“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 ASCII character set contains single-character symbols for common fractions such as 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4. Microsoft Word 2010 has the ability to detect when you type one of these fractions and convert ...

Adding and subtracting algebraic fractions is a similar process to adding and subtracting normal fractions. The denominators of each fraction are different, \(3t\) and \(7t\), so a common denominator ...

Zach Champagne, assistant in research at FCR-STEM at Florida State University, compares the “traditional” area model for teaching fractions to the number-line model emphasized in the Common Core State ...

The same method is used for adding and subtracting numerical fractions or algebraic fractions. Find a common denominator Write each fraction as an equivalent fraction with that common denominator ...