Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

A 3-year study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of laboratory and lecture strategies in a course for prospective elementary teachers on the structure of the number system. Experimental and ...