As children learn basic arithmetic, they gradually switch from solving problems by counting on their fingers to pulling facts from memory. The shift comes more easily for some kids than for others, ...

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 ...

We’ve put together 19 brain-teasing questions covering everything from factorials and exponents to square roots and fractions. 🧠 🙀 Your task is simple: for each question, you’ll see two numbers. You ...

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 ...

Quick: Five seconds to answer. Math Bee winners Melany Catota and Saviour Moccormack. As she rode the morning bus, Melany Abigail Catota Lopez, a third-grader at Strong School, pulled a stack of pink ...