Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...

The common-core math standards require that students learn the standard algorithm for multi-digit adding and subtracting—you know, the process in which you line the numbers up vertically to add or ...

The present paper describes the success, the methods (mental, informal written, standard algorithm) and the strategies of informal written arithmetic to be observed when 300 elementary students worked ...

I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many ...

A new client recently told me that he felt the meeting he had just attended was a waste of time. The problem was that it was his meeting. He had invited the attendees, set the agenda, and led the ...