Want to help your fifth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your fifth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Explain or illustrate how you solved this problem. Tip: Highlight ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Students are barely beginning to recover from a historic decline in math performance. Across every grade and region of the country, students in every racial, income, and disability group have ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...

Excerpted from Dear Math: Why Kids Hate Math And What Teachers Can Do About It by Sarah Strong and Gigi Butterfield. Published by Times 10 Publications. As learning theorist Yrjo Engestrom (1995) ...