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 ...

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

Now the company has added to its roster of award-winning learning tools with Prodigy Math Facts, a structured daily fluency experience that helps students strengthen addition, subtraction, ...

Timed math fluency exercises—in which students are asked to solve a certain number of problems within a minute or two—do not appear to exacerbate students’ math anxiety, new research finds. The study, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...