CLEVELAND, Ohio – On a mid-October day, Mr. John Whelan is playing a video on rounding numbers for his class. As the video finishes and Mr. Whelan begins the lesson, Zoey expresses her worries and ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...

Area fifth- and eighth-graders showed slight gains in math during the first round of high-stakes Texas tests — a trend that mirrored state results. Texas school districts received preliminary results ...

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 ...

The New York State Education Department is making it clear that the state tests to be given to third- through eighth-graders next month are going to be different -- and difficult. The tests are tied ...

A Math Advisory Committee made a presentation to the school board on its goal to boost math instructional time at the fifth-grade level at Walter T. Bergen School (WTB). A proposal to increase math ...

Forget speaking in public or death, our greatest fear should be, “Help your fifth-grade child with their math homework.” Before COVID-19 we all expressed our deepest love and respect for the teachers ...