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The developer DragonBox is expanding Kahoot!’s world with a new app focused on teaching math to children. Here’s everything you need to know about the new Kahoot! Multiplication app. If you are ...
Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay Area ...
In 2017, researchers studying the mathematical skills of working children realised that the same students who easily solve “real-world” maths problems, struggle to answer similar questions as they are ...
LOS ANGELES – LOS ANGELES (AP) — The class of eighth graders at a Los Angeles middle school tap their rulers and nod their heads to the rhythm of the rap video projected on a screen. It's not Snoop ...
From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...
In the age of smartphone calculators and voice assistants, multiplying large numbers by hand may seem like a quaint and entirely unnecessary skill. However, you never know when you’ll need to do quick ...
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 ...