Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day ...

Depending on where you look, Mizzou’s ratio is either 18:1 or 17:1; it’s a simple error, sure, but one that says a lot. That ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Teacher education often receives criticism for being too theoretical. Many students lack more training in how to teach in practice when they enter schools. They now receive this at the University of ...

Students aren’t necessarily missing the math, they’re missing how to make sense of the problem itself. Once we see ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Three young students sit around a Chromebook in the southeast corner of their Liberty Launch Academy classroom. Whimsical ...

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California requires the State Board of Education to adopt at least five math programs in grades K-8. The board far surpassed ...

Sheen: Game-based learning isn’t about replacing rigor. It’s about sparking curiosity, reducing fear and fostering a genuine ...