Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework. Those days predated the Common ...

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nation’s dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems? Clearly, if that was the answer, it would have worked by now–but it hasn’t, as ...

Mathematics is solving problems,” said Bethany Rittle-Johnson, a professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College in Vanderbilt University, who studies math instruction.

A couple months ago, a high-school math problem went bonkers viral, frustrating the good people of the Internet by the hundreds (if not thousands). It was a word problem, and it was confusing (we ...

New research from the University of Kansas has found an intervention based on the science of reading and math effectively helped English learners boost their comprehension, visualize and ...

Math is a problem — one that a relentless onslaught of testing has not solved. Some assume kids are the ones failing, but it’s time to acknowledge that it’s our tests and the curriculum they ...

To help students develop competence and confidence in math, teachers should be concerned with the quality of problems they assign rather than the quantity.