Elementary teachers can create opportunities throughout the day for students to strengthen their math knowledge.

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For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...