To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving ...

With falling scores on math tests such as the international Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests – which dropped between 2018 and 2022 by two-thirds of a year’s worth of ...

If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that's because it was.

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Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

One thing glaringly absent from the article regarding efforts to change how students learn math in Baltimore’s public schools (“Baltimore’s math scores consistently trail Maryland’s. Here’s city ...