What has typically happened in classrooms is “you learn how to add whole numbers, you learn algorithms for adding multidigit whole numbers, and then you learn addition with fractions, and it’s ...

Mixed fractions are a mix of whole numbers and a fraction together, for example 1 \(\frac{1}{4}\). Sometimes you need to change how fractions are written to make them more useful.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Killie Rick found a new solution to subtraction problems involving whole numbers and fractions. She used the concept of negative numbers in a way that ...

Numbers beyond Fractions We now learn in school that some values—the so-called irrational numbers—cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers. But this realization is far from obvious.