One month into the school year, my math classroom is buzzing with familiar rhythms: assessments, routines and students still ...

This same principle applies to education: If students never meet resistance from mistakes, they fail to develop the ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

I once asked a colleague if he’d read a particular book. “Read it?” he replied incredulously. “I haven’t even taught it!” A former college English professor, he came by the joke honestly. The first ...

As founder of Just Equations, a nonprofit focusing on expanding math opportunities, Pamela Burdman says math instruction today often misses the mark, focusing on procedures, algorithms, and ...

Pro runner Susanna Sullivan tells PEOPLE about racing the New York City Marathon for the first time on Sunday, Nov. 2, and ...

We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, ...

To the editor: Math classes should be eliminated and replaced by another recess period. In other words, if mathematics or arithmetic was taught as puzzles to be explored and as a fun activity instead ...

A former math hater offers tips that just might turn math dread into something less — or maybe even math love.