This game-based activity prompts students to explore the structure of multiplication, experiment with the distributive property, and begin investigating prime numbers. Journal Information Teaching ...

Multi-base arithmetic blocks (MAB) are the most frequently used physical materials for teaching about decimal numbers, despite published reservations about their appropriateness. This paper presents ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

SC schools have new math standards and a new approach to the subject as the Palmetto Math Project aims to improve low middle school scores after COVID-19.

Lynda Colgan receives funding from The Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario and The Mathematics Knowledge Network (KNAER). Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding ...

Most people know just one way to multiply two large numbers by hand. Typically, they learned it in elementary school. They’re often surprised to find that there are a variety of ways to do ...

The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table. From a few fragments out of a collection of 23-century-old bamboo strips, historians have pieced together what they say is ...