When Julie Selsberg’s elementary school son and daughter have math homework, Selsberg reads instructions on worksheets and learns the math before helping her kids. “We do follow how they do it first ...

The old way to multiply required a student to add the products of 36 x 4 and 36 x 2. The trick is to add that 0 at the end of the second product. Your fifth-grader asks you for help with the day's ...

Multiply by 6 using the grouping of objects, arrays, and facts you already know. Explore the Multiply by 6 facts using the grouping of objects and arrays. Compete against characters to see who finds ...

Lynda Colgan receives funding from The Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario and The Mathematics Knowledge Network (KNAER). Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding ...

Kids ask, "Why?" all the time. Why does 1+1=2? Why do we have to memorize multiplication tables? Many of us eventually stop asking these questions. But what if someone — a mathematician — encouraged ...

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 ...

Clara the Hen will get your class up and moving whilst learning about multiplication and division. This song is a great way to introduce or recap this topic and will get pupils energised. KS1 Maths: ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

Learn the 3 times table and its division facts with the resources below. You can take a quiz, practise mental arithmetic and learn a 3 times table song. Need to practise your 5 times table? Then look ...

Primary schools which fail to teach times tables by heart are condemning children to a lifetime struggling with numbers, inspectors have warned. A study published by Ofsted, the schools watchdog, says ...

Calculators are awesome, but they’re not always handy. More to the point, no one wants to be seen reaching for the calculator on their mobile phone when it’s time to figure out a 15 percent gratuity.

You have to feel for Nick Gibb. The schools minister, appearing on British television to promote a new test to find out whether eight and nine-year-olds know their times tables, was asked by the ...