From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

Here's why math fact fluency matters, and what we know from research about teaching strategies and timed exercises.

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level?

Indeed, girls outperformed boys in many math skills. They were better at arithmetic, including tasks like simple subtraction and complex multiplication.

We tabulated the frequency with which simple addition and multiplication facts occur in elementary school arithmetic texts for grades 1-6. The results indicated a strong "small-fact bias" in both ...

When you’re referring to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the proper word is “arithmetic,” maintains our math fan.