SANFORD – Most days music wafts from Genene Pearson’s seventh-grade classroom at Millennium Middle School. But instead of taking singing lessons, her students are learning math. “Numerator times ...

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Use visual fraction models to add and subtract fractions with the same denominators. Use visual fraction models to add and subtract fractions with the same denominators. Notice patterns in the ...