From the 1950s, particularly after the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1958, American mathematicians and mathematics educators introduced a variety of reforms in mathematics teaching that ...

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

This “non-recipe” recipe will get the kids back into practicing their math facts. Then they get to eat the tasty results. Place all food items in individual bowls on work surface. Each child draws a ...

I stumbled across a free, open source program today that makes creating flash cards incredibly easy. I was looking because I had a meeting today with some members of our middle school math department ...

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 ...

MathFacts in a Flash is part of the Math Renaissance system, which combines student coaching, professional development and assessment for math instruction. For a free Math Renaissance information kit, ...

Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says teachers and parents should stop using math flash cards, stop drilling kids in addition and multiplication and especially stop forcing students to do calculations ...