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It is important that children have a conceptual understanding of basic addition and multiplication facts before they memorize basic facts. Students may progress through three stages in learning the ...

Procedural fluency or conceptual understanding--math educators have debated for years which is more important. I sided with conceptual understanding until my colleague Angela McIver helped me see the ...

Here’s a shout out to fellow gray-hairs who learned math the “old-fashioned” way, by memorizing simple formulas along with facts about addition and multiplication. This technique is anathema in ...

Multiplication facts typically describe the answers to multiplication sums up to 10x10. Sums up to 10x10 are called "facts" as it is expected they can be easily and quickly recalled. You may recall ...

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California's roughly 6million public school students may soon no longer be instructed to memorize their times tables following the approval of a new version of the state's Mathematics Curriculum ...

The adoption of Alberta’s discovery math teaching techniques and curriculum has meant that in many Alberta elementary schools, teachers are discouraged from teaching the standard, time-honoured ways ...

The study will likely polarize the controversy over math teaching styles, in which fundamentalists are squared off against proponents of 'discovery-based' learning You can save this article by ...