"The concept of multiplying fractions is really dividing something."

The letter to parents states that students are also expected to multiply and divide fractions by standard methods.

The lattice technique can also be used to multiply decimal fractions.

A short cut for multiplying fractions is called "cancellation".

The students were multiplying fractions - the same skill my daughter and her fifth-grade classmates had already mastered.

On the other hand, none of them knows how to multiply and divide fractions.

He spends his nights trying to teach their parents - investment managers, art historians, writers and full-time mothers - how to multiply fractions without gimmicks.

Even the idiots in my class could multiply and do fractions by the time they got out of Year 8.

If they'd been in enemy territory for even a little while, they got good at adding two and two-and sometimes even at multiplying fractions.

During a recent visit, one young man was multiplying fractions, while at the next computer a younger girl did a punctuation drill, then a geography lesson.