Mathematician and Co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's H-STAR Institute Dr. Keith Devlin spoke about math, the symbol barrier and the development of understanding math through ...

With the right lesson plan, teachers can turn struggling students into budding mathematicians. The secret is carefully guiding their adventure in numbers I still vividly remember the day, 14 years ago ...

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 ...

FREETOWN — Learning mathematics one way for six years and then switching to another way upon entering middle school is causing difficulties for some students, Freetown School Committee member ...

Susan Hobart asked this week’s “question-of-the-week": What strategies help math facts stick besides the old “drill the skill” and, if someone is not proficient at addition facts, can learning ...

Math teachers have had a new problem to solve this school year: How do you foster engagement and understanding among students when you’re often not in the room with them? “As if mathematics weren’t ...

After reading Pete Pichaske’s article (“A new way to teach spelling,” March 7), I felt spurred on to reframe the issue of mathematical literacy. Ineffective teaching strategies for spelling have also ...

What year was it one million seconds ago? A billion seconds ago? Ruth Parker, chief executive officer of the Mathematics Education Collaborative, began her lecture "Mathematics and Your Child's Future ...

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Associate Prof Ton Than, former Head of the Mathematics-Informatics Department of the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences, says that teacher training methods in mathematics studies remain ...

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In her 12 years of teaching, Kash Deaton has developed techniques that put problem-solving in students’ hands.