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 ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. When Kelly McNamara, a fifth-grade teacher in the Burrillville School District, Rhode ...

Young students around the world struggle to memorize multiplication tables, but the effort pays off. Cognitive scientists say that learning 6 x 7 and 8 x 9 by heart frees up the brain’s working memory ...