Math classrooms shifted over time to the discovery model. Not suddenly, and not without good intentions. There was a ...

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

Math achievement has been stagnating for over a decade. What could turn that around? As the “science of reading” makes big strides, one can’t help but ask if there’s an analogous “science of math.” ...

Is 2/7 larger than 4/11? That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...

Jo Boaler is a professor of math education at Stanford University and has written several books and research articles related to math education. She also co­-founded youcubed.org, an organization and ...

Margie Howells said that she turned to the science of math after wondering why there weren't as many resources for dyscalculia as there were for dyslexia. Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar The Hechinger ...

There's a little war going on in the education community. Don't panic, there is nothing dangerous about this conflict. It is only ideological. What is the object of the division? The educational ...

Explicit instruction is a term that summarises a type of teaching in which lessons are designed and delivered to novices to help them develop readily-available background knowledge on a particular ...