1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

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 ...

The days of math drilling and rewriting multiplication facts over and over are over. As a teacher, I look to the Internet for resources to recommend for math practice and tutoring. There are a wealth ...

In The Atlantic's ongoing debate about how to teach writing in schools, Robert Pondiscio wrote an eye-opening piece called "How Self-Expression Damaged My Students." In it, he tells of how he used ...