Unlike Esa Helttula's other apps, which allow kids to practice specific skills through a no-nonsense kind of interface, Esa's latest app, for the iPad, gives kids a playground of sorts to play around ...

While Microsoft Word is designed primarily for text, it is possible to add mathematical formulas within a document. The multiplication function is one of the standard formulas available for Word ...

Q. I was recently laid off and will be home for the whole school vacation. My son needs a great deal of help with his multiplication tables, so now I have time to help him. He is in fourth grade and ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

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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 ...