Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

Susan Hobart asked this week’s “question-of-the-week": What strategies help math facts stick besides the old “drill the skill” and, if someone is not proficient at addition facts, can learning ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 84, No. 3 (November 2013), pp. 309-328 (20 pages) In this article, I present and build on the ideas of John Threlfall [(Educational Studies in Mathematics ...

September 11, 2025 - An audit found the charter received millions in funding for which it was not eligible, assigned teachers to classes they were not credentialed to teach, and avoided standardized ...

What patterns can be observed among the mathematical arguments above-average students find convincing and the strategies these students use to learn new mathematical concepts? To investigate this ...

Sara Rezvi (@arsinoepi on twitter) is a former high school mathematics teacher, a current doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the College of Education, and the program ...

A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. However, having analytical skills also means acquiring mathematical skills and being comfortable with numbers. Although math ...