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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 ...

Kids ask, "Why?" all the time. Why does 1+1=2? Why do we have to memorize multiplication tables? Many of us eventually stop asking these questions. But what if someone — a mathematician — encouraged ...

A Primary 3 math question with a seemingly correct method of calculation that yielded the right answer was marked wrong Someone posted about it on Reddit, igniting a debate over the accuracy of the ...

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