The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new ...

Getting your kids interested in math — or anything number-related — can be a real challenge, especially if you weren't exactly fond of arithmetic yourself growing up. Rather than focus solely ...

This is an exciting time to be a mathematics teacher-educator. In the past two decades, we have developed a much better understanding not only of how children learn math, but also of how to teach math ...

Something we can teach them is how to use it responsibly and purposefully. Help your son or daughter connect with their classmates through Facebook, even if they don’t have an account themselves.

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

Mary Johnson is not a person you’d typically associate with the future. She is 81 and talks about teaching math in the District during the 1960s as if little time has passed. But week after week ...

As students prepare to return to school Thursday for the start of another academic year, Strong’s success shows how one school has responded to New Haven’s biggest instructional challenge: how to ...

When most people picture math lessons, they imagine pencils, paper and desks, not sugar-water rewards and tiny mazes. But one group of cognitive scientists isn’t teaching arithmetic or calculus ...

Just because you teach kids correct ways of doing things, that doesn’t mean the incorrect strategies disappear. Students really need help thinking and reasoning through why those are wrong.

In December 2020, she invited dozens of like-minded education researchers to the first science of math Zoom meeting. They believed the research showed that teaching math properly in the early grades ...