A fraction is part of a whole. When you find a fraction of an amount, you work out how much that part is worth, compared to the whole. Here is a quarter written as a fraction. The numerator is 1 and ...

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 ...

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