“Who would draw a picture to divide 2/3 by 3/4?” asked Marina Ratner, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

Support your knowledge of this topic by looking at these guides on Lowest Common Multiple and equivalent fractions. Look at the examples below on how to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers.

Fractions, often perceived as daunting, become manageable with the right approach. Addition and subtraction require finding a common denominator, while multiplication involves directly multiplying ...