In a way, active working memory allows children to hold together the parts of math problems in their heads. For example, to perform the mental computation 11 x 25, a child could say, "10 times 25 ...

“A lot of people want us to focus only on math, and if we’re going to use real-word examples, they need to be astronomy, or STEM, not race, or the nitty-gritty of what our Black and brown ...