The short division method of multiplication can be used to divide a decimal by a whole number. Equivalent fractions close equivalent fractionA fraction with the same value as another. can be used to ...

A math handout sent home by teachers at my son's school struck me as so absurd that I thought for sure the parents were getting punked. The exercise demonstrated how to do the new way of long division ...

My youngest son is a whiz at math - as long as he can figure out problems in his head. But his uncanny ability to make sense of numbers is lost when he looks at a formulaic math problem. When he was ...