Imagine being an elementary school student and trying to figure out math problems with 75 teachers peering over your shoulder–Daves Avenue Elementary School principal Kit Bragg likened it to being in ...

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. Research analyzed 49 studies with 37,654 participants and discovered something remarkable: reading comprehension had a significantly strong ...

Imagine a parent telling a child, “I’m just not a reading person.” Sounds odd, doesn’t it? Now reread the same cartoon, substituting “math” for “reading.” Suddenly it doesn’t seem so absurd. But it ...

Over the past year, since I took over the common-core math beat, I’ve been thinking a lot about fractions. As I wrote in November, the Common Core State Standards for mathematics emphasize fractions ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

A few weeks ago, her students started studying fractions using a collection of rods, blocks and other shapes meant to show them how fractions look geometrically, not just as numbers on a page. These ...

“I’m not going to do my maths homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here’s a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted. But why? What will be left of him?” – ...