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In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

From haikus to math journals and comic strips, there are major benefits when writing is infused into the math curriculum.

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

My first graders ended this school year asking for more math. I know—I am still surprised myself, not because I ever doubted my students (in my decade of teaching, that has never happened!), but ...

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...