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 ...

Adding numbers can be made considerably easier by learning the proper techniques. Among these arithmetic strategies, the "Make 10" method gives kids more self-assurance and speeds up calculations.

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in upper elementary grades, they should be able to produce the answer to 6x3 ...

Kayla Thuemler, a first grade teacher in Milwaukee, shows other teachers how she solved a subtraction problem during a professional development session on math teaching. Credit: Abby J. McFarland for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and ...