“What is a fraction?” asked Denise Pusateri, JPS mathematics coordinator, to a group of fifth and sixth grade teachers. The question may seem to have an easy answer but with the new Common Core ...

Students will find common denominators to help add fractions with unlike denominators. Students will join Ms. MacDonald to find common denominators to help add fractions with unlike denominators.

Jennifer Gegorski is a fifth-grade math and social studies teacher at Walter Kidder Elementary School. Gegorski has been teaching for a total of 12 years. Her first year as a teacher, she taught ...

Math Masters of Minnesota began as a fifth grade math competition program in 1989 with teams from 44 schools taking part.