While there is a lot of talk (and proven studies!) about the negative effects of screen time on kids, we cannot deny the fact that there are also some advantages. I, for one, am not ashamed to admit, ...
Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...
Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6.5 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don't use ...
Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...
Kids who count on their fingers between 4 and 6 years old have better addition skills by 7 than those who don’t use their ...
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 ...
In Boston public schools, 3, 4 and 5-year-olds are getting their first introduction to math. Before they walk through the kindergarten door, the “Building Blocks” curriculum is designed to encourage ...
We present a case study of teaching and learning fraction addition on number lines in one 6th-grade classroom that used the Connected Mathematics Project Bits and Pieces II materials. Our main ...