Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says teachers and parents should stop using math flash cards, stop drilling kids in addition and multiplication and especially stop forcing students to do ...

The adoption of Alberta’s discovery math teaching techniques and curriculum has meant that in many Alberta elementary schools, teachers are discouraged from teaching the standard, time-honoured ways ...

California's roughly 6million public school students may soon no longer be instructed to memorize their times tables following the approval of a new version of the state's Mathematics Curriculum ...

As I read all of the recent Citizen pieces on math problems, and the opinions on the pros and cons of memorization, I thought of my dad, Colin Leitch. He was a teacher by profession and by nature, and ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

Lifehacker reader Will writes in with a memorization system he picked up while taking an art class that required him to remember long dates attached to paintings. Using a "Red Table" of mnemonic sound ...

'Yes, parents, that means memorizing times tables is back for our kids,' the education minister said Author of the article: You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...