Back to School Without the Math Meltdowns It’s that time of year again- sharpened pencils, fresh notebooks, and… tears over ...

Back in 2008, I read a story about a teacher who used NASCAR to make learning math less painful for his students. Tom Baughman, then teaching the fourth grade, called it “NASCAR Math,” and takes the ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...