Fraction Fundamentals, the Missing Step

Video Series

For hundreds of years, there has been a major “missing step” in the math educations that even the best schools offer their students.

You can think of this missing step as an educational “math hole” — a   missing math course that should be taught to all math students at the very beginning of 4th grade prior to studying their regular 4th grade math textbooks.

This “missing step” is filled with the exact knowledge and skills needed to understand and apply math fractions at the highest level of simplicity and precision. These insights and know-how are needed by every math student on Earth —fast, average, and slow learners alike — so that each of them can realize his or her full potential for solving real-life problems involving quantities.

Factually, the usual and expected 4th – 6th grade arithmetic skills of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions are well known and taught widely.

HOWEVER, THE “FRACTION FUNDAMENTALS” — THE SIMPLE, TRUE, AND COMPLETE CONCEPTS UNDERLYING THESE FRACTION ARITHMETIC SKILLS — ARE, IN THE MAIN, UNKNOWN.

  • Now here’s the good news: These underlying concepts, the “Fraction fundamentals”, are no longer missing. They have been found. And not only found but described, defined, and illustrated in detail in the 20 free lessons of Fraction Fundamentals, the Missing Step video series.
  • Fraction Fundamentals, the Missing Step video series presents precise, fundamental fraction knowledge that can lead to mastery of the missing step — and all the mathematics that follows!
  • Study these lessons in order from beginning to end (from Lesson Zero through Lesson Eighteen without skipping lessons) and greater success in mathematics can be yours!

I wish you good learning.

Bruce Silton
December 30, 2021

Lesson Zero:
Introduction: The Story of the Missing Step

Lesson One:
First Definitions

Lesson Two:
A Graph that Tells a Story

Lesson Three:
What is the Missing Step?

Lesson Four:
Prerequisites for Pre-Fraction Arithmetic

Lesson Five:
The Fraction Defined & Illustrated

Lesson Six:
What a Fraction is Not — Four False Ideas about Fractions

Lesson Seven:
There is a Missing Word in the Language of Math

Lesson Eight:
The Fraction-Thing, Defined & Illustrated

Lesson Nine:
Place Value

Lesson Ten:
Numerators and Denominators, Defined & Illustrated

Lesson Ten A:
Decimal Fraction Numerators and Denominators

Lesson Eleven:
The Three Main Kinds of Fractions

Lesson Twelve:
Fraction, the Top Definition

Lesson Thirteen:
The Family of Fractions

Lesson Fourteen:
The Family of Fractions Five Fraction Facts (FFFFF)

Lesson Fifteen:
Finding the Missing Level, the Untold Story

Lesson Sixteen:
The Three Products of Pre-Fraction Arithmetic

Lesson Seventeen:
Educating Math Students, a Solution

Lesson Eighteen:
The Fraction Series Books and Videos