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 ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Toronto, March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prodigy Education, global leaders in game-based learning, today launched a ...

Math fact fluency doesn’t have to mean boring drills. Teachers and parents are using games, hands-on activities, and adaptive tech to build speed, accuracy, and confidence. By making practice playful, ...

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, ...

New research and educator initiatives highlight that children build lasting math fluency when conceptual understanding, purposeful practice, and playful, hands-on learning are integrated. Studies show ...

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 ...

The words “enjoy” and “math” often aren’t used together by parents: In many homes, the subject instead is associated with anxiety, stress and trepidation. At a recent two-day conference on math ...

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 ...

Toronto, March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prodigy Education, global leaders in game-based learning, today launched a brand new way for teachers to make daily fact fluency practice even more engaging ...

It is suggested that promoting fluency with mathematics skills should be a focus of instruction in the early school years (Carr & Alexeev, 2011); however, opportunities to practice component skills ...