Adults are often intimidated by math, and they can easily pass that attitude on to their children. To counter this, some schools are holding events to bust misconceptions and get adults on board with ...

Finals were over and summer vacation has started. An app that ranked as top 1 on the US educational app ranking chart, has caught the eyes of many students during the final season. The e-learning app ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

Education Week reporter and data journalist Sarah D. Sparks attended the American Educational Research Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia earlier this month. Here, she shares three of the ...

To help kids with math, students and families need to feel comfortable, confident and excited about working with numbers. That’s one of the key takeaways from two math education professionals who took ...

Math often gets a bad rap for being complicated or intimidating, but the truth is that mathematics is all around us and plays a crucial role in our everyday lives. If, in the past, math has been a bit ...

Proficiency in early math skills lays the groundwork for more advanced mathematical abilities, and socioeconomic disparities in these skills are apparent even before children begin formal schooling (e ...

We have all heard the old saying, "Sleep on it," when trying to solve a problem or making an important decision. There might be some scientific truth to that advice, especially when it comes to ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...