Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I found myself dealing with how to multiply fractions as ...

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Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods ...

Use multiplication to tell "how many." Multiply by 2 using the grouping of objects. Explore multiplication to help us tell "how many." Multiply by 2 using the grouping of objects and arrays. Connect ...

Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...

Early math is fraught with confusing questions: Do kids really need to know all those multiplication tables? Which should come first, math concepts or procedures? Why don’t schools pay as much ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...