Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

I will never forget this one day when Kevin was a preschooler. We had an IEP meeting, and one of his proposed math IEP goals was to be able to visualize and identify what 2 of something looks like or ...

The Nation's Report Card updates long-term academic trends for 9- and 13-year-old American students. Reading and math scores for 9-year-olds are on the rise — but classroom performance for young teens ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their minds. The precise mental processes they rely on to solve these problems, ...

On this occasion, the honor goes to Andrzej Odrzywołek, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. In a recently updated, ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

Using only the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and the mathematical operations addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, can you arrive at the value 456? You ...

Chance Stone is the project manager at the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), heading a high-profile initiative to improve math performance in the state's public schools. Stone is happy to ...

Reflex Math (reflexmath.com) is a game-based learning platform that helps students become math fact fluent. Reflex games are interactive and fast-paced providing students with a fun and motivational ...

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...