No matter how dire the math crisis, we can turn it around. Making math a priority in our kids’ education also will help prepare them for real life.

Today, I want to start with a much broader question: What do we really know about how to teach math to children? The answer is not all that much—and what little we do know is highly contested.

Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of some of the loudest disagreements in mathematics education.

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