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 ...

I started my teaching career at a large comprehensive high school, teaching math exactly as I had been taught. Each day, I introduced my students to a new type of problem, solved a problem for them, ...

My son failed his 7th-grade math class. The school told me I had two options: make him repeat 7th grade (which they discouraged me from doing) or send him to 8th grade. But if he couldn’t handle ...