Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergartners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense ...

HAVE sum of this, Mum and Dad. It is all very well telling kids to get down to their maths homework on a gloomy winter’s evening. But how would YOU do? We told this week how nearly half of parents ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

It’s widely accepted that teachers and parents should praise the effort kids make – rather than praise their innate ability – if they want their students and children to be successful. Similarly, a ...

The Funexpected Math app serves as a gateway for children into the world of math culture. Most U.S. students are struggling in math. The latest NAEP test shows that 64% of fourth graders and 74% of ...

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

Here’s one more reason to detest teachers-unions and other special interests who prioritize everything but getting the kids ...

Are students’ math struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic completely unprecedented? Yes and no. Disruption in schools has also meant disruption in testing, so it’s been hard to pin down exactly how ...