Students in Illinois, like their peers nationwide, tend to score lower in math than they do in reading and writing.

A university report found a sharp rise in first-year students lacking high school math proficiency. At UCSD, where more than ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

The California State Board of Education voted to adopt a new—and much-debated—math framework on Wednesday, concluding a years-long process that involved three drafts, prompted hundreds of suggested ...

The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ longstanding poor performance in the subject, a new study finds. The Center on ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

A nontraditional math instruction strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow ...

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

The future of math education will begin with the divorce of a very long-term marriage between math learning and grade-level instruction. “The Future of Math,” my chapter in School Rethink 2.0, ...

It’s a common experience for many New York City parents. They sit down to help their kids with math homework, only to be totally flummoxed. Part of the reason is math instruction has undergone a ...