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

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Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Now, he solves for an unknown in ...

Want to help your first-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand place value in one- and two-digit numbers. Understand that in two-digit ...

When you are doing arithmetic by hand because your calculator’s batteries just gave up and your laptop is in the other room, it’s best if you can check your calculations with a different process than ...

Column subtraction is a way of subtracting larger numbers. It is called column subtraction, because you write one number underneath the other, using place value to sort the tens and ones in separate ...

'Edutainment' titles are a strange lot. They're usually poor attempts to shoehorn some 'learning' in videogames, possibly out of fear that games rot the brains of kiddies. Donkey Kong Jr Math is no ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...

Want to help your second-grader master the basics of 2nd grade math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Count forward within 1000. Count by 5s. Count and add by ...