I closed my recent post, So Long, Long Division, by asking you to either join me in acknowledging that long division is a meaningless math procedure or to share reasons students should learn long ...

With the possible exception of fractions, no elementary math topic or skill stresses students out more than long division does. And it’s so unnecessary--not just the stress, but the skill. Think about ...

"Divide, multiple and subtract. Bring it on down and bring it on back!" Those are the words to a foot-tapping song 4th grade students made up to guide them through the unchartered waters of long ...

It’s happened: Someone figured out a way to make math class — gasp — fun. A video posted to Twitter last night, that has already gone viral with more than 23,000 retweets and 31,000 likes, shows what ...

My youngest son is a whiz at math - as long as he can figure out problems in his head. But his uncanny ability to make sense of numbers is lost when he looks at a formulaic math problem. When he was ...