focus on repetition and mastery of skills. (Record photo by Beverly Shilling Math for Carly Harmon is as everyday as washing her face, as rote as tying her tennis shoe. She flies through her math ...

Japanese kids learn to multiply with a completely different method than the one kids in the US do. The Japanese math voodoo/magic is more of a visual technique where you draw lines and count the ...

Truthfully, David Glefke, 8, of Prospect Heights would rather be out in-line skating than sitting in a church basement twice a week, doing math drills. “I don’t like math at school,” David said, after ...

When I first saw this Japanese multiplication method, I just couldn’t believe it. Then I tried it and it works perfectly, but still can’t understand how it works—or how anyone found this method. You ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We are beginning to see whether these borrowed methods are working in the classroom. My new study, which looked ...