“Not a lot of people like math” said Araceli Alvarez, a fifth grade teacher at the school who was helping parents through worksheets and games, adding the event encourages them to learn the same ...

A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

Math educator Dan Finkel grew up doing math with ease and completed calculus as a freshman in high school. But it wasn't until he went to math summer camp and learned how to think like a mathematician ...

Many of us grew up fearing math and believing we just weren’t good at learning the subject, but a statewide initiative is ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...

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In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been shown to have a profound ...

Counting bears are frequently used in early childhood classrooms and may be especially useful for students with math disabilities as they learn that numbers correspond with a certain quantity of items ...

Kinga Morsanyi received funding from the Royal Society to carry out this research. Carlo Tomasetto received funding from The Royal Society to carry out this research. Paddy O'Connor and Veronica ...

Florida’s state education agency rejected dozens of math textbooks this past spring because, officials contended, they contained common-core learning standards or violated a state law that prohibits ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving ...