A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the U.S. Their “math designer” stands at ...

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Working furiously, heads bent over in concentration and pencils scribbling fast, they work. Then the teacher says, ”OK, stop.” Sighs of disgust and quick comparisons of answers follow as the papers ...

In the past 20 years, parents have taken to heart public-awareness campaigns urging them to read to their children every night. But math initiatives have not gained as much traction—even as emerging ...

My kids have a strange aversion to numbers. They seem to like the idea of quantifying things around them, but when the numbers hit three or four digits we have something of a family mental block.

Students in high-performing countries for mathematics are less reliant on memorization strategies than their peers in lower-performing countries, according to a new analysis of international ...

Latino and African-American students were less likely to pass algebra 1 and less likely to attend high schools that offer advanced math or science classes than their white and Asian peers, according ...

Over the course of your life, how many times have you heard someone declare they’re “not a math person”? Probably too many to count (no pun intended). Whenever I hear someone say this, I immediately ...

In 1929, the superintendent of schools in Ithaca, New York, sent out a challenge to his colleagues in other cities. "What," he asked, "can we drop from the elementary school curriculum?" He complained ...

Let’s join Mr. Joel Lookadoo this morning for another entertaining math game! Make sure you have a pair of dice handy because today we’re to adding and subtracting based on the numbers we roll. Rise ...

A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at ...