Other, less enthusiastic teachers simply give up and choose to focus on the children who respond well to math classes. But ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

For many students, math carries a reputation that makes palms sweat before a single number appears on the board. Pi Day flips that script on ... Read more The post On Pi Day, teachers turn numbers ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...