How heartening to read the article, “Why Does Fact Fluency Matter in Math? 4 Educators Offer Answers ” (Dec. 7, 2023). Math fact fluency is a timely issue, as evidenced by the most recent ...

Harper Elementary is initiating a math fact fluency initiative for students. New to Harper staff this year is Terry Howell. Howell will be partnering with the teachers in third through fifth grades in ...

As children make the transition from finger-counting to retrieving math facts from memory, their brains begin to change, according to a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience. The findings ...

An adapted alternating treatments design with initial baseline and final best treatment phase was used to evaluate and compare the effects of two classwide interventions, detect–practice–repair (DPR), ...

ExploreLearning has launched an iPad version of Reflex, its math fluency tool. Reflex uses game-based instruction and practice to reinforce math facts in all four operations. The self-paced program is ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

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Dr. Gina Kling has served the mathematics education community in a variety of ways throughout her career of more than two decades: as an author and developer of K–3 math curriculum materials, as a ...

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 ...

Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...