School officials Tuesday encouraged the board of education to phase out grouping students by their math abilities in the lower grades. At Spaulding School, which has kindergarten through fourth-grade ...

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 ...

The debate that continues to simmer over California’s new math guidelines is a reminder that divisions remain deep over approaches to instruction, the pacing of algebra in middle school and the ...

Researchers have developed a new approach that uses math to determine the best ways to group individuals to maximize learning. Their work has broad implications in education, as well as in economics, ...

Starting in September, third-graders of all academic abilities will learn math together in the same class. By bringing together average students, those ahead of their peers and those requiring extra ...

I still remember the first time I became angry with a teacher. I was in first grade and just received my first “real” report card. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a glowing evaluation. The exact details have ...