The film is an educational tutorial on division aimed at helping a student named Bob understand the concept of division using place value, dividends, divisors, and quotients. It explains how to divide ...

When you think back on elementary school math, do you have fond memories of the countless worksheets you completed on adding fractions or solving division problems? Probably not. Researchers and ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (StudyFinds.org) – Math generally comes easier to some students than others, but could each one of us have instinctual division skills before ever opening a textbook? New research ...

Fourth-grader Damoni Brunson carefully draws out the division problem, seven into 184 with the seven on the outside of the long division symbol and the 184 inside it. It's the same set-up that ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

Want to help your third-grader master the basics of 3rd grade math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand what it means to multiply numbers – for example ...