From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

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 ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

Teaching multiplication: Expert argues that many math teaching tools — flash cards, math sprints, worksheets — are not only unhelpful but “damaging.” Why?

5th grade math skills: Find out what you need to know for your student Fifth-graders will continue to deepen their understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions.

Learn activities for fourth grade math to prepare for school. Teach your children 4th grade math skills like fractions, multiplication and division.

Summer weekdays start with a reading and math exercise at the Killeen household in the Bellevue School District. Kira, 8, and Nate, 10, work through multiplication problems in a textbook filled ...

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 ...

New research shows that if you want to be good at math, you have to practice all different kinds of mathematics.

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math.