I stumbled across a free, open source program today that makes creating flash cards incredibly easy. I was looking because I had a meeting today with some members of our middle school math ...

When the teachers moved on to multiplication by fours, the groups switched. The chanters quizzed themselves with flashcards, and the flashcard kids started chanting. All the students practiced ...

Similarly, when Bushart does flashcards with students, he lists two facts for each flashcard: 6x7 and 7x6 are really the same math fact, not two unrelated ones.

When the teachers moved on to multiplication by fours, the groups switched. The chanters quizzed themselves with flash cards, and the flash card kids started chanting. All the students practiced ...

In a new working paper, “Fluency Without Fear: Research Evidence on the Best Ways to Learn Math Facts,” updated and published online on January 28, 2015, Boaler argues that many common math teaching ...

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 ...