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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By the time students start 4th grade in Jennifer Clark’s class, she hopes they have a solid grasp on their math facts. “Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two ...