Students use counters to help model multiplication. (Charity Rachelle for NPR) In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math ...

In almost every state, student achievement in math is below pre-pandemic levels. Alabama was the only state where fourth-graders' average math scores surpassed 2019. What are they doing differently?

Instead of worksheets and textbooks ... Another student took a different route: "I broke the 12 apart into 10 and 2." Which means, instead of multiplying 12 x 9, they multiplied 10 x 9 and ...

Multiples are really just extended times tables. The multiples of 2 are all the numbers in the 2 times table, such as 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and so on. The multiples of 5 are all the numbers in the 5 ...

Maybe the top half of your exam has division problems, and the bottom half has multiplication problems. You might accidentally keep using division rules when the worksheet shifts to multiplication.

For example, typing: =4+5+10 into a cell and pressing Enter results ... if a formula contains multiplication and division), it deals with the operators from left to right. Here's the full order ...