Solving word problems is a key component of math curriculum in primary schools. One must have acquired basic language skills to make sense of word problems. So why do children still find certain word ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

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These four classroom shifts can make academic risk-taking feel safer, clearer, and more worthwhile for middle school students ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

A math handout sent home by teachers at my son's school struck me as so absurd that I thought for sure the parents were getting punked. The exercise demonstrated how to do the new way of long division ...

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...