Back to School Without the Math Meltdowns It’s that time of year again- sharpened pencils, fresh notebooks, and… tears over ...

Back to School Without the Math Meltdowns Back to school in our house always meant one thing, controlled chaos.

International tests scores released this month provide further evidence that U.S. students are behind where they should be in math, a problem that has huge implications for their success in school and ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

San Benito County's math initiative, revived in 2023, is improving student math skills through innovative teaching methods ...

Bill Gates wrote a blog post in October suggesting three ways to improve math education. He says he believes math skills are a "powerful indicator" of future success. Gates, once criticized by a ...

When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...

Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle each ...

Anything new takes a little time to get used to, and that's the case for educators who've been using other approaches and were themselves taught math differently, writes Brittany duPont.(Berezko / ...