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Rote memorization is the recall of facts with repetition, without necessarily understanding. Fluency is the combination of ...
These are the math concepts from third grade that most adults struggle with.
Thirty-eight percent of young adults think math is very important in their work life; fewer believe it’s important in their ...
From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...
Astrophysicist and TV star Neil deGrasse Tyson has finally answered the age-old question of why kids need to learn math - even if they never touch the subject in adult life ...
As they work to address plummeting math achievement following pandemic-related school closures, more schools have sought to harness adult attitudes to help children learn.
“When children or adults struggle with learning to read, the response is, ‘You can do this, and we will teach you how.’ But with math, it’s more of ‘Oh, you’re just not good at math,’ and that’s the ...
The new curriculum is the grade-level math that my Algebra I students should be doing. When given the chance, so many rise to ...
American adults surveyed in a new Gallup poll are sorry they didn’t learn more math when they were in school. A majority of the 5,000 people who took the survey said that math skills are important in ...
In Education Next, Laurence Holt dives into a series of research studies that show strong results for edtech math products—when the programs are used as recommended.