Op-ed: Why Indiana must realign math standards to match how kids learn

Middle school teachers are now forced to assume multiplicative thinking is secure so they can dive into ratios and algebra.
The Union-Recorder

LVA brings the madness to math with ‘Multiplication Madness’

At Lakeview Academy, March doesn’t just mean basketball. It means math, competition, and a whole lot of excitement.
Education Week

What Is Math ‘Fact Fluency,’ and How Does It Develop?

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 ...
Education Week

Kids Need to Know Their Math Facts. What Schools Can Do to Help

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 ...
Ars Technica

DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later

Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster—twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix ...
Indiatimes

THIS simple primary level multiplication turns out to be the hardest for kids! More than 60% kids get confused, an old report claims

Kids dread multiplication tables. The endless efforts parents put to help their child memorize the multiplication tables till 10 is hard to put in words. In India, multiplication tables are taught to ...