We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Erica Zippert has received funding from the Heising-Simons Foundation for her research. Bethany Rittle-Johnson receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences, ...

EdSource · School leaders grapple with Supreme Court decision on religious rights Elementary teachers who changed their perceptions about math — such as who’s good at it and why it’s useful — saw ...

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

Many students complain and question math learning in school because they feel it isn’t necessary for their future lives. However, many students don’t realize that math is used and applied everywhere.

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

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

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

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

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...