Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

Every December, Sigmatics, Homi Bhabha State University’s annual mathematics festival, makes maths interesting—and less ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

Houston ISD seventh grader Xavier Cherkas can solve a Rubik's cube in less than a minute. He's been a math whiz since he was 2, when he began reciting polygons and counting as high as he could, his ...

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

Data released by the Oregon Department of Education in the fall showed that student proficiency rates for mathematics dropped to about 30%. At the same time, investments championed by Gov. Tina Kotek ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

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Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

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