To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

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The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new study.

Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle ...

Vanderbilt University researcher Erica Zippert recommends that parents encourage young children to recognize patterns and spatial relationships – along with numbers – to get ready to learn math.

Americans are lacking in confidence when it comes to math. Restaurants now print the suggested tip on receipts because so many customers struggle to calculate it — an exercise that draws on 4th ...

Curious about how math is learned, Evans has joined with UVA colleague Daniel Lipscomb, Vanderbilt University’s Laurie Cutting, Michael Ullman from Georgetown University and others in studying 109 ...

Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...

GREENSBORO, N.C.-- Elementary students within the Guilford County Schools (GCS) system are learning math in a whole new way. Middle schools students will also learn how to do math differently via ...

New research debunks an old myth about math abilities in boys and girls. Is the math gender gap a psychological or cognitive problem?