The educators at We Are Teachers came up with the idea of using pool noodles as an easy, inexpensive learning tool to help students visualize fractions, which is often a challenge for many kids.

Why not use what you’ve got at home to make fractions somewhat easier to understand? And as we’ve written before, according to the Montessori method of education, having kids use a “constructive” or ...

A simple exercise is talking about what fractions are shown in the diagrams: for instance, what fraction of an image is blue? The website Cool Math for Kids also lets you use pattern blocks to ...