and timed “math facts” drills that somehow managed to ... but I have become a damn good math teacher. It wasn’t easy to get here, and I still find myself backsliding. Going whole weeks ...

Memorizing basic math facts is not recommended by all math researchers, but it is important and will help students learn other mathematical concepts such as fractions in the middle grades and ...

A lot of teachers think procedural fluency is synonymous with “knowing your math facts,” but it’s more than that, as defined in the National Research Council book, Adding It Up: Helping ...

Young children can perform certain kinds of math operations before ever receiving any kind formal math training, a new study reports. The finding suggests children have an inborn intuition about ...