I heard one of my favorite phrases the other day in class. Two young women raised their hands during a partner task and blurted in frustration (and in unison): “This answer just doesn’t make any sense ...

Having a poor "gut sense" of numbers can lead to a mathematical learning disability and difficulty in achieving basic math proficiency. This inaccurate number sense is just one cause of math learning ...

David Ginsburg, of Education Week Teacher‘s Coach G’s Teaching Tips blog, has a good explanation about what it means to “make sense of problems"—one of the eight Standards for Mathematical Practice.

A new study suggests that the strength of an infant's innate sense of numerical quantities can be predictive of that child's mathematical abilities three years later. Babies who are good at telling ...

Greg Duncan before delivering the keynote address at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s forum on early math. Credit: Lillian Mongeau, EdSource Today A study showing that early math skills are ...

In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg argues that math is not a foreign language but a way of idiot-proofing our native tongue. SHARE There is nothing like reading correspondence between two ...

We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin ...

In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg argues that math is not a foreign language but a way of idiot-proofing our native tongue. SHARE There is nothing like reading correspondence between two ...