To truly become proficient in math, students need a solid foundation built on conceptual understanding. However, the benchmark assessments students take at the end of the year—designed to measure ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

Future teachers are likely to teach as they were taught—which can be problematic, researchers wrote in a recent study, “because most teachers experienced school mathematics as a set of disconnected ...

While literacy is often seen as a cornerstone to scholastic achievement, and many parents devote a lot of time and energy into nurturing their small child’s love of reading, studies show that ...

Have you ever tried to help a child with their third-grade math homework, only to find yourself stumped? You're not alone. Many adults are surprised to discover that some of the math concepts taught ...

Mathematics is the language of science, the foundation of engineering, the power switch for new technology—but students often struggle to transfer their understanding of math concepts to practical ...

The Big Apple is trying out a new equation to help boost sagging math scores. City officials unveiled a new public school math curriculum Monday aimed at helping students overcome their “fear of math” ...

Many elementary teachers have math anxiety stemming from their own schooling, which can impact their students' math performance. Ohio colleges are working to better prepare future teachers by focusing ...

Poor performance in previous math classes and low confidence are some of students’ biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to math success, according to a new survey about math education. The survey of ...

Math can be a difficult subject. In school, I remember being fairly good at math but it seemed a lot of my fellow students were not. There were times when I helped to tutor other students in the class ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...