Bushart was speaking on an Education Week panel on May 25, focused on two important pieces of early math instruction: fact fluency and beginning ... who could solve 8 x 5 quickly, but didn ...

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 ...