The University of Arizona’s Center of the Recruitment and Retention of Mathematics Teachers (CRR) is offering strategies to ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Mathematics education must move beyond marks and memorisation, focusing instead on reasoning, problem-solving, and creative ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

These clever hacks will help your kids estimate the number of jelly beans in a jar, leaves on a tree, and more.

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...

In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...

Joy and enthusiasm provide essential components to build the motivation and perseverance needed to understand and succeed in math. Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience research show correlations ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

Ms. Anderson and Ms. Winthrop are the authors of “The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better.” As the new school year gets underway, artificial intelligence is ...

Introduction: This study explored the emerging academic skills of five-year-old Estonian children, focusing on cognitive processes, learning skills, and parental beliefs and behaviors. While previous ...