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 ...

Timed math fluency exercises—in which students are asked to solve a certain number of problems within a minute or two—do not appear to exacerbate students’ math anxiety, new research finds. The study, ...

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 ...