Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. In education circles, early literacy ...

A classroom intervention that costs just $9 for each child can deliver a three-month boost to children's math skills. The initiative also showed promise in closing the gap between children from ...

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A new study found young children are more likely to trust incorrect math advice from men than correct advice from women.

DALLAS — In Eran McGowan’s math class, students try to teach each other. If a student is brave enough to share how they solved a math problem, they stand up in front of the other third graders and say ...

The study showed that playing "linear number board games" - where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can ...

My fifth-grade twins have been at our Title I elementary school since Pre-K and loved it. It’s a small school with dedicated staff who go above and beyond to provide our global majority, ...

Too many children are falling behind in maths before they even start school, experts have warned. More than one in four youngsters fail to achieve the level expected of them in the subject at the age ...

Mathematics is an important subject in every child's education, but many kids find it difficult and stressful. What if there was a way to make math fun, simple, and fast? That’s where Vedic Maths ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...