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California's roughly 6million public school students may soon no longer be instructed to memorize their times tables following the approval of a new version of the state's Mathematics Curriculum ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, D-Bronx, speaks on the Assembly floor in March. It’s been a while since some school districts have used old-school multiplication tables. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, ...

Kids dread multiplication tables. The endless efforts parents put to help their child memorize the multiplication tables till 10 is hard to put in words. In India, multiplication tables are taught to ...

A student takes a remedial math class at Haltom High School to study for the STAAR state standardized tests. in this 2012 archive photo. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram/Ron Jenkins After years of lackluster ...

Procedural fluency or conceptual understanding--math educators have debated for years which is more important. I sided with conceptual understanding until my colleague Angela McIver helped me see the ...