A young boy goes to fraction camp and describes the activities of his day through fractions, including eating breakfast, archery class, and playing soccer with a team of aliens.

Crack the case with George Cornelius Factor in this entertaining math adventure that introduces simplified and reduced fractions with equal parts intrigue and humor. When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-gotten fractions, GCF invents a Reducer—half ray gun, half calculator— that strips away the disguise, reducing the fraction to its lowest common denominator and revealing its true form. With the Reducer in hand, George seeks out Dr. Brok in hopes of retrieving the missing fraction. Back matter includes more detail on simplifying, or reducing, fractions.

Splitting things in half may seem like an easy thing to do, but when two siblings and a pizza are involved, things can get messy. Children learn about fractions at school but fractions are also an important part of everyday life outside the classroom.In this riotous book, Stuart J. Murphy and G. Brian Karas introduce the simplest of fractions, 1/2.

Presents twenty-five cartoon stories, each followed by a selection of related questions designed to build math skills in fourth- through eighth-grade students.

Reinforce learning fractions at home with 10 Minutes a Day: Fractions, a workbook that supports school curriculum and classroom teaching on fractions by adding quick but valuable practice time for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. 10 Minutes a Day: Fractions utilizes a proven learning strategy for learning fractions. Encourage your child's learning with the effective "little and often" learning strategy outlined in our 10 Minutes a Day workbooks. Proven effective, this leveled, curriculum-supporting method is great for children who resist long periods of study, or for children who need focused attention in fractions. 10 Minutes a Day: Fractions is different than other study books because it includes an embedded LCD timer that encourages children to beat the clock, adding an extra element of challenge to focused study time. The 10 Minutes a Day: Fractions workbook is broken into study challenges and exercises designed to take up to 10 minutes to complete. Children work through a series of quick-answer questions, then move onto extension activities and timed exercises if they have time left after the first round of study questions. The timer acts as a stopwatch for skills challenges, and many kids are surprised to find that beating the timer can actually be fun. 10 Minutes a Day: Fractions helps children learn by supplementing school curriculum and strengthening the important skills set of learning fractions. Parents will love that 10 Minutes a Day: Fractions helps them fit short bursts of study into already busy days, and that 10 Minutes a Day: Fractions includes an answer key for parents, as well as notes on common pitfalls and how to teach children to overcome them.

A basic introduction to the concept of fractions.