Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Now, he solves for an unknown in ...

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Column subtraction is a way of subtracting larger numbers. It is called column subtraction, because you write one number underneath the other, using place value to sort the tens and ones in separate ...

Want to help your first-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand place value in one- and two-digit numbers. Understand that in two-digit ...

You probably haven’t had to do longhand math in years, but you do mental math every day. Or maybe you google math problems ten times a day, because you’ve forgotten how to do any math beyond your ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...