Children often struggle to memorize multiplication facts, as Hechinger reported, but research suggests it may be worth the effort. Cognitive scientists say that learning your times tables by heart ...

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 ...

New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix ...