Other, less enthusiastic teachers simply give up and choose to focus on the children who respond well to math classes. But ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

The Nation’s Report Card makes one thing painfully clear: American kids are failing in math, and the education system has been failing them for decades. New research from National Center for Education ...

It’s a common scenario in many households: A child’s struggle with their math homework quickly becomes a frustration for their parents, too. A child wrestles with a problem. His mom, trying to help, ...

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

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 ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Board games boost youngsters' maths skills, according to new research. Children learn to count as they move pieces along a numbered path in games such as snakes and ladders, say scientists. The study ...

Re “Dismal student test scores deserve boos, not cheers” (Oct. 17): I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many students had ...