“For some, common core is creating common confusion,” said education correspondent Rehema Ellis on a recent NBC News segment. The crux of the news piece was that parents are struggling to help their ...

Fractions, often perceived as daunting, become manageable with the right approach. Addition and subtraction require finding a common denominator, while multiplication involves directly multiplying ...

It is less straightforward to picture the answer to this addition because the denominators (bottom numbers) are different. You can only add and subtract fractions when the bottom numbers, or ...