More than 50 professors and teachers have now signed a petition calling for a return to the conventional teaching of arithmetic, with a focus on students learning, practicing and mastering the basics ...

The Alberta government has bent to pressure from parents for curriculum changes and will require students to memorize their multiplication tables starting this fall, dealing a setback to the ...

Well, if you haven’t been following the debate, I’ll offer you a primer today. The main issue is that the Alberta government has pushed schools towards teaching math in a newly-devised manner, using ...