A year after he started his Ph.D. in mathematics at McGill University, Matt Bowen had a problem. “I took my qualifying exams and did absolutely horribly on them,” he said. Bowen was sure that his ...

The goal of this study was to describe fraction-calculation errors among fourth-grade students and to determine whether error patterns differed as a function of ...

A fraction is part of a whole and is shown by writing one whole number above another. The top number is called the numerator and the bottom number is the denominator. Fractions are equivalent if they ...