Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Flashcards, and the Leitner system, is a fantastic tool for memorising and drilling facts. Anything that can be studied in a quick "question and answer" format can be turned into flashcards – things ...

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For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

Math scores in the US 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 worse ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about numbers. And while that may seem daunting, most kids enjoy sharpening their math ...

Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...

When I was younger, math facts were my jam. I had an almost photographic memory for numbers. I could memorize phone numbers, birthdays, and—you guessed it—math facts. I loved playing classwide games ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...