(playful music) (electronic gadgets clinking) - [Children] Math Mights! - Welcome 3rd grade Math Mights. I'm so excited you joined us today. My name is Ms. Askew and I can't wait to have fun learning ...

(bright music) - [Children] Math Mights. - Welcome, third grade Math Mights. I'm so excited you joined us today. My name is Ms. Askew, and I can't wait to have fun learning about math with you today.

Multiplying 2 x 2 is easy. But multiplying two numbers with more than a billion digits each — that takes some serious computation. The multiplication technique taught in grade school may be simple, ...

This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?

Four Wappingers elementary students are multiplying up to 384-digit numbers in school. These students, who are in the district's math enrichment program, are getting creative with math theory to solve ...

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 ...