Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...
XtraMath helps kids gain fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The program is conceptually similar to flash cards. Credit: Ian Moore / mashable As COVID-19 was spreading last ...
Re “Dismal student test scores deserve boos, not cheers” (Oct. 17): I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many students had ...
A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...
Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.