This is a concise description of the turmoil in the Republican Party leading up to the campaign and election of 1880. How or whether to reform the patronage system was at the heart of the selection of a candidate. Find out about the...

Evaluate numerical expressions with unit-fraction exponents or radicals, and convert between the two forms of representations.

A visual description of the concept of half life. Complete with an interactive graph.

In this lesson plan students are given pictures of various shapes and are to determine which one is half shaded.

This exercise begins with students folding a square piece of paper according to directions and aligning it on a coordinate grid. They then must find and solve a pair of linear equations which can be used to understand how to fold a piece...

A mixed number is a whole number plus a fractional part. An improper fraction is a fraction where the numerator (top number) is larger than the denominator (bottom number). You can convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions...

Use these colorful fraction strips to model fraction relationships and solve mixed fraction problems.

A wealth of resources to help you in planning classroom instruction on rational expressions: lesson plans offer guidelines for and examples of simplifying, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing rational expressions; practice...

Second graders will explore and investigate fraction circles and will apply their discoveries to the book Jump, Kangaroo, Jump by Stuart Murphy. Then students will record their observations in their science journals.

This tool allows you to explore fractions, decimals and percents by creating fractions with denominators up to 100.

This video illustrates a word problem involving the multiplication of fractions using an array to model the solution visually. The problem involves puffins, arctic birds that live in colonies and fish to feed their young.

Teachers, this is the place to come for fraction lesson plans if you teach elementary students. All the topics have a number of resources available from which to choose.

A learning module through which students learn about equations including the following: Translating words into equations and equations into words, The Properties of Equality to help solving equations, Techniques for solving simple...

The purpose of this task is to have students think about the meaning of multiplying a number by a fraction, and use this burgeoning understanding of fraction multiplication to make sense of the commutative property of multiplication in...

One goal of this task is to help students develop comfort and ease with adding fractions with unlike denominators. Another goal is to help them develop fraction number sense by having students decompose fractions. Aligns with 5.NF.A.1.

This collection of lesson materials focuses on how the Federal Reserve System works. Students will learn how banking systems work and what a fractional reserve banking system is.

This is the easiest problem in a series of three tasks involving fraction multiplication that can be solved with pictures or number lines. Aligns with 5.NF.B.6.

This article by a statistician explains the difference between probability and odds, the use of fractional odds in a gambling context, how odds ratios are used, and why they are used instead of risk/probability ratios.

This site is an overview of how to read music. The basics of notation such as note and rest values, the names of lines and spaces of both treble and bass clefs, etc. are covered. Includes downloadable audio files.

This lesson goes over how to divide a whole number by a fraction. It is 2 of 11 in the series titled "Dividing Whole Numbers by Fractions."

This lesson goes over how to divide a whole number by a fraction. It is 5 of 11 in the series titled "Dividing Whole Numbers by Fractions."

Students learn about finding a common denominator in fraction addition and subtraction.

This lesson goes over how to divide a whole number by a fraction. It is 6 of 11 in the series titled "Dividing Whole Numbers by Fractions."

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one-half to David J. Thouless of University of Washington and the other half to both F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University and J....