One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from which ...

Forget the Super Bowl, this is the Math Bowl. D.C.’s first ever “Middle School Math Championship.” D.C. school kids got up early on Saturday, their day off, to go to school voluntarily. What a ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...

In this math tutorial, we look at the traditional methods of maths teaching and problem solving. We discuss how education often structures learning by showing problems, working through them, and then ...

Any of us who have ever been in a math classroom know that too many kids lack fundamental arithmetic skills. It is extraordinarily difficult to teach students more advanced skills when their ability ...