If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

One of my first vivid memories of math is of timed tests. I still remember how visceral my panic felt–sweaty palms, heart pounding–as I scrambled to recall facts before the clock ran out. You might ...

For many of us, anxiety about math performance isn’t so much a question of whether it will happen, but at what level of math it kicks in (in my case, Calculus III, sophomore year in college). But, as ...

Low-entry, high-exit math tasks that keep every student engaged are great at keeping students interested in STEM and involving all learners in the classroom. Math can be made accessible to all ...

Worrying about a math test can quite literally hurt. The anticipation of doing math problems lights up pain networks in the brain for people with high levels of math anxiety, according to a new study.

Turns out that sheer intelligence is not enough to become a young math whiz. It also takes a good attention span and training your mind to "self regulate" or focus on the task at hand. The measure for ...

My 2nd grader finishes his math enrichment, then gleefully creates blank versions for his dad and me to try: a subtraction-based, number-placement logic puzzle, intended to be challenging. My husband ...

The Regional Task Force on Homelessness reported a 13 percent year-over-year drop in people falling into homelessness and a ...