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 ...

Use multiplication to tell "how many." Multiply by 2 using the grouping of objects. Explore multiplication to help us tell "how many." Multiply by 2 using the grouping of objects and arrays. Connect ...

This is called repeated addition. You add the same number lots of times. This can also be written as a multiplication calculation. There are five equal groups of two. The five represents the number of ...

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 ...

A long-standing puzzle seems to constrain how addition and multiplication relate to each other. A graduate student has gone further than anyone else in establishing the connection. In 1983 the ...

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Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. On March 18, two researchers described the fastest method ever discovered for multiplying two ...