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, ...

Dividing Fractions: When dividing fractions, you can achieve the same result by multiplying the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction. A fraction consists of a numerator and a ...

In this math lesson, students learn multiple ways to add fractions and about bar modeling. In this lesson, students learn multiple ways to add fractions and how bar modeling simplifies word problems.

NARRATION:Back in the deepest, darkest depths of time, there lived a great mathemagician called Hypatia. Numbers fell under her spell one by one. With them, Hypatia could do anything. Now Hypatia is ...

Just like with whole numbers you can perform the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) with fractions too. To divide fractions by a whole number, you divide the ...

Fractions are a foundational piece for tackling mathematics at all levels of schooling. Students need to understand how two numbers interact with each other as numerators and denominators, as ratios, ...