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

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 ...

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

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, ...

As surely as 2+2=4, it also equals a beginning step on students’ mathematics journey. Single-digit addition facts like these are so heavily used in mathematics that it’s critical that students ...

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From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...