But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them flexibly to solve complex, real-world problems, known as procedural fluency. “Mathematics is not just ...

(Hint: They do.) In a recent Education Week survey of about 300 math educators, most agreed that it’s “essential” for students to have fact fluency in order to work on higher-order ...

For example, when asked to solve the problem of 7 x 8, someone with number sense ... as shown by recent brain research. "Math fluency" is often misinterpreted, with an over-emphasis on speed ...

This summer, a math camp will return for its second year to help children who struggle with the subject or with better studying habits.

The researchers—all experts on children's math learning—describe findings on how arithmetic fluency develops, why it matters, and how educators can help students achieve it. "We want to be ...

Notably, research findings indicate that levels of fluency with component mathematics skills predict overall mathematical ability (Carr, Steiner, Kyser & Biddlecomb, 2008) and growth trajectories ...

At a recent two-day conference on math fluency in young children, Susan Levine, the Rebecca Anne Boylan Professor in Education and Society, challenged more than 100 attendees to find ways to support ...

Numeracy – our everyday play with numbers – is essential to the rhythm of life and our adaptive success as a species. There is a wonderful beauty in numbers that infants and toddlers ...