EdSource · School screen time is rising. California parents are asking where to draw the line For folks in the literacy world, the bitter fight over California’s math framework sounded eerily familiar ...

April 2, 2026 - Julie Edwards' daughter brought home a Chromebook from school in second grade to work on math and reading. But soon she was watching Youtube videos. Math facts are single-digit ...

Regularly working with manipulatives can help boost second graders’ fluency and confidence in fundamental skills.

As surely as 2+2=4, it also equals a beginning step on students’ mathematics journey. Single-digit addition facts like these are so heavily used in mathematics that it’s critical that students ...

The Education Week Spotlight on Improving Math Fluency is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on the importance of math fact fluency, the challenges students face ...

What’s the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

Numeracy – our everyday play with numbers – is essential to the rhythm of life and our adaptive success as a species. There is a wonderful beauty in numbers that infants and toddlers intuitively ...