This is called repeated addition. You add the same number lots of times. This can also be written as a multiplication calculation. There are five equal groups of two. The five represents the number of ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

A long-standing puzzle seems to constrain how addition and multiplication relate to each other. A graduate student has gone further than anyone else in establishing the connection. In 1983 the ...

Multiplication is calculating the sum of groups of the same size. There are lots of ways to build and describe multiplication problems. Using repeated addition, you can add equal groups together, one ...