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 ...

“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...

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 ...

UPDATES ON THIS STORY. IT’S NOT WHERE THEY WANT TO BE, BUT THE NEW STATEWIDE NCAP TEST SCORES SHOW STUDENTS IN BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SCORING HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR AND IN SOME CASES HIGHER ...