Seems like budget cuts, staffing cuts and revenue cuts are all the rage these days. Perhaps more than ever, you and your team will be required to do more with less — much less of everything. At some ...

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 put all of their addition and subtraction skills together to solve equations. In this lesson, students put all of their addition and subtraction skills together to solve equations. Julia ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Solve word problems using a checklist. Engage in a Number Talk to find "how many." Solve addition and subtraction word problems with a Step-by-Step Visual Model checklist. Understand what the problem ...

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 ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...

TikTok users are sharing an addition problem that seems easy enough at first glance, but people’s mental arithmetic skills get tripped up by the same part of it. All you have to do is add up the ...

Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.