A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as, ...

Scientists have found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain predicts performance on basic arithmetic problems. The findings shed light on the neural ...

Try this Year 6 arithmetic quiz, covering calculations, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals and percentages. Maths SATs arithmetic quiz 2 Try this Year 6 arithmetic quiz, covering ...

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 ...

Addition explained, getting the same total when adding different numbers and making addition easier using chunking and the column method. Subtracting numbers using the column and chunking method ...