Procedural fluency or conceptual understanding--math educators have debated for years which is more important. I sided with conceptual understanding until my colleague Angela McIver helped me see the ...

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 ...

National group cites 4 pillars to math education for young kids. A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for students in pre-K through fifth grade foun ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help ...

Watch: Learn more about how Prodigy Math Facts works in the classroom Prodigy Co-Founder and Co-CEO Rohan Mahimker said: “Being able to quickly and accurately recall basic math facts is so important ...

Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. At stake are hot-button ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...