U.S. students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and rapidly ...

Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework. That’s starting to change, ...

Abigail B. Gonzales assists the participants in graphing various functions. PANGLAO, Bohol—Teachers need to level up their teaching techniques, especially in mathematics. To train the teachers, the ...

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 ...

What’s on the horizon for my young learners? I can’t predict the future, but I know this much is true: Performing basic computational tasks won’t be a gateway to a well-paid or long-term career. My ...

The Goldilocks solution to our math crisis is where relatable problems aren’t so simple that there’s no learning but also not so complex and irrelevant that there's none.

Wisconsin’s math scores have fallen and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is pushing for state and local leaders to ...

Math will look and feel a lot different in San Francisco schools this year and that seems evident by the picture of the chilled-out chimpanzee on the cover of the new kindergarten textbook, with ...

This article reports a naturalistic study of small-group instruction in elementary school mathematics classes. Three school districts from three cities (a small suburban city, a large urban city, and ...

The report declares that a truce is necessary in the so-called math wars. Traditionalists emphasize math facts and direct instruction of procedures, while progressives focus on conceptual ...