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Under Common Core, it takes far too long for a teacher to show a student how to do simple addition, said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. In 2013, the Texas Legislature passed a law prohibiting school ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...

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 ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

We present a case study of teaching and learning fraction addition on number lines in one 6th-grade classroom that used the Connected Mathematics Project Bits and Pieces II materials. Our main ...

Herb Smith was an energetic, demanding math teacher for more than 30 years at West Seattle High School. During that time, he softened high expectations with compassion and encouraging words, spurring ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 47-57 (11 pages) An analysis of the transition from counting-all to counting-on identified three subskills: (a) counting ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...