Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, that too many classrooms focus too much on ...

The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build on English learners’ strengths. Seventy-seven percent of 8th-grade ...

Angie Werner got a lot more than she bargained for on January 24, when she sat down to help her 8-year-old daughter, Ayla, with her math homework. As Pop Sugar reported in 2018, the confusion ...

Adults’ negative math perceptions can impact students, but one expert shares how educators can make math more accessible.

Common Sense Media editors help you choose Best Math Games for 1st Grade. Plus and minus equal new math skills for your first-grader, and these apps can help reinforce their learning. Skip to main ...

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher ...

While calculators are handy, mental math tricks can save you time and deepen your understanding of maths. Many exams don’t permit calculators, so being well-versed in square root techniques can ...

U.S. students at a plateau: At 4th and 8th grade, reading and math scores haven't budged The pattern of decline concentrated among the lowest-performing students – across multiple grade levels ...

In first grade, a friend told me her grandmother was younger than my mom. I started to feel anxiety about my parents being ...

Forgive some Warren County students if they found everything adding up to 24 for the past month or so. The Warren County School District held its annual Warren County School District Challenge 24 ...