Adding numbers can be made considerably easier by learning the proper techniques. Among these arithmetic strategies, the "Make 10" method gives kids more self-assurance and speeds up calculations.

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 ...

Column addition is a way of adding numbers together. It's helpful when you're adding two-digit or three-digit numbers together. When you do column addition, you lay out the numbers you are adding ...

In this chapter, we look beyond the whole numbers at other numbers that are included in school mathematics in grades pre-K to 8, particularly in the upper grades. We first look at the rational numbers ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Find out how to write decimals using tenths and hundredths. What are negative numbers? Find out how to count backwards from zero and order negative numbers.