As surely as 2+2=4, it also equals a beginning step on students’ mathematics journey. Single-digit addition facts like these are so heavily used in mathematics that it’s critical that students ...

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Susan Hobart asked this week’s “question-of-the-week": What strategies help math facts stick besides the old “drill the skill” and, if someone is not proficient at addition facts, can learning ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. When Kelly McNamara, a fifth-grade teacher in the Burrillville School District, Rhode ...