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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is suggested that promoting fluency with mathematics skills should be a focus of instruction in the early school years (Carr & Alexeev, 2011); however, opportunities to practice component skills ...

Welcome to Teaching in Room 9, the area's largest classroom. I'm Mrs. Forth from the Rockwood School District. We're gonna have a lot of fun this week talking about fluency. That's right, we're really ...

Math fact fluency and scores received a boost this year in Jessica LeBlanc’s second-grade classroom at Duplessis Primary School. LeBlanc's students have been using the Reflex Math and IXL programs, ...

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 ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...