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For children to understand math, teachers must constantly make the connection between abstract numbers and real world examples, new research shows. If 3 is greater than 2, then ⅓ must be bigger than ½ ...

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This news release is available in French. Montreal, August 27, 2013 — If 3 is greater than 2, then ⅓ must be bigger than ½ — right? Wrong. As thousands of students head back to school, many will use ...

Many children never master fractions. When asked whether 12/13 + 7/8 was closest to 1, 2, 19, or 21, only 24% of a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 US 8th graders answered ...