As surely as 2+2=4, it also equals a beginning step on students’ mathematics journey. Single-digit addition facts like these are so heavily used in mathematics that it’s critical that students ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

The Education Week Spotlight on Improving Math Fluency is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on the importance of math fact fluency, the challenges students face ...

Numeracy – our everyday play with numbers – is essential to the rhythm of life and our adaptive success as a species. There is a wonderful beauty in numbers that infants and toddlers intuitively ...