Regularly working with manipulatives can help boost second graders’ fluency and confidence in fundamental skills.

Senate Bill 1067, which requires screening early elementary grade students for math difficulties, can significantly improve ...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's SkillsTutor division has launched a new version of its digital math program that aligns with Common Core State Standards. Introduced last week in its updated form at the ...

How heartening to read the article, “Why Does Fact Fluency Matter in Math? 4 Educators Offer Answers ” (Dec. 7, 2023). Math fact fluency is a timely issue, as evidenced by the most recent ...

Numeracy – our everyday play with numbers – is essential to the rhythm of life and our adaptive success as a species. There is a wonderful beauty in numbers that infants and toddlers intuitively ...

ExploreLearning has launched an iPad version of Reflex, its math fluency tool. Reflex uses game-based instruction and practice to reinforce math facts in all four operations. The self-paced program is ...

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

No more choosing between rote learning and rich discussions—experts say the best way to teach math is to combine both. What’s the smartest way to help kids master math? A groundbreaking new report ...

Numeracy – our everyday play with numbers – is essential to the rhythm of life and our adaptive success as a species. There is a wonderful beauty in numbers that infants and toddlers intuitively ...