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

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 ...

Children who struggle in math usually have difficulty remembering math facts, handling word problems and doing multi-step arithmetic (pdf).

Struggling to help your child with their homework? The older they get, the more difficult the assignments become, and fo ...

Researcher Bethany Rittle-Johnson shares strategies for how teachers can help students develop a deeper understanding of math.

Here is another compilation of Good e-Reader Top 10 Apps for Google Android, this time targeting kids and education. All the apps mentioned here have one thing in common: all of them are designed ...

We hope education leaders will pursue efforts to improve math instruction. New international test scores show how urgent the need for change is.

The new curriculum is the grade-level math that my Algebra I students should be doing. When given the chance, so many rise to ...

A lot of prospective elementary school teachers are drawn to teaching because they want to work with children, not because they're excited about teaching math to children. Andy Tyminski's job at ...

They call it the Math Wars: The debate, at times acrimonious, over which way is best to teach kids math. In its most black-and-white form, it pits schools hoping to prepare kids for a new world ...

Sarah Powell, an assistant professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, is one of the founders of the science of math movement. Here she is training math teachers on how to ...

Children come into school with differences in background knowledge, confidence, ability to stay on task and, in the case of math, quickness.