Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of “The Happiness Project,” has spent her entire career studying what makes people happy in life. This Mother’s Day, she’s sharing the parenting lessons she wants ...

Math fluency requires more than just memorizing facts and procedures, but also knowing how and when to use them.

Teachers have limited preservice training in how to approach key math concepts and links while differentiating across such a ...

A scientific review finds that children build the strongest math skills through a blend of conceptual understanding, ...

New research shows that children learn math fluency best through a balance of timed practice, conceptual reasoning, and ...

A new report reveals that combining timed practice with conceptual discussions is the most effective way to build arithmetic ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level?

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 ...

Ornik said he's had discussions with colleagues from the University of Illinois' College of Education about why elementary school students are taught to do mental math and to memorize multiplication ...