The students will use models and draw pictures to multiply fractions. The students will view pattern blocks and then draw pictures to model fraction multiplication.

Funded by a $3 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the Department of Education, Elizabeth Public Schools, which educates 23,374 students in 33 schools in New Jersey, will expand its use of ...

Although teachers already use models when talking about fractions — for instance, to show a picture of a pie with slices eaten — they often put them away too quickly. To prove that the constant use of ...

Although teachers already use models when talking about fractions — for instance, to show a picture of a pie with slices eaten — they often put them away too quickly.

Still, be sure to also teach students the common denominator approach, since they don’t need to flip and multiply fractions in order to divide and conquer them.

A Maths article on how to use your knowledge of fractions to multiply mixed numbers by integers.