At one time, it was mandatory for students to memorize their times tables and learn to add and subtract without counting on their fingers. But it fell out of fashion years ago, displaced in most ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

The adoption of Alberta’s discovery math teaching techniques and curriculum has meant that in many Alberta elementary schools, teachers are discouraged from teaching the standard, time-honoured ways ...

Unlike Esa Helttula's other apps, which allow kids to practice specific skills through a no-nonsense kind of interface, Esa's latest app, for the iPad, gives kids a playground of sorts to play around ...

The Queens Park Football Club mascot, Webster the Spider has a song and movement routine to help students learn the 10 times table. This is a great refresher and will get them physically active too.

Let Cardiff City's mascot Bartley Bluebird and Wolverhampton Wanderers' mascot Wolfie Wolf get your Key Stage 2 class to their feet and testing their knowledge of the ...

California's roughly 6million public school students may soon no longer be instructed to memorize their times tables following the approval of a new version of the state's Mathematics Curriculum ...

Of all the numbers that you can be tasked with multiplying, the number nine always seems like one of the more tricky numbers to wrap your head around. Maybe it’s because it’s a larger number to work ...

There are three months to go before the Election and we are already chest-deep in ludicrous partisan drivel. Funny that the more alike the parties are, the more slime they chuck over each other. But ...

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