Another common struggle: the parts-of-a-whole problem. Fractions are introduced through the “pizza model,” but students’ ...

But I’ll begin right with division of fractions by fractions (a 6th grade common-core standard). Here’s the Powerpoint slide from their presentation. The teachers first translated the equation ...

Find another common factor greater than 1 and divide again. 24⁄36 can be reduced to its lowest terms in one or more steps. The reduced fraction is always 2⁄3. The order of cancelling down does ...