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 ...

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 ...

ExploreLearning has launched an iPad version of Reflex, its math fluency tool. Reflex uses game-based instruction and practice to reinforce math facts in all four operations. The self-paced program is ...