Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to factors that affect a student’s well-being in adulthood, better math skills might not be the first thing that ...

Tonya Clarke has always loved math. But the students she taught during her first year in the classroom 25 years ago decidedly did not. The class of juniors and seniors in Georgia’s Clayton County ...

A few weeks ago, I ran into Matt Hamo, a Glendale Unified teacher I’m always glad to see, mainly because of the positive feelings I get from him about what’s right with public education in Glendale.

Learning math takes effort and can even feel uncomfortable, but moments of struggle and mistakes are part of the process. Research shows that productive struggle in math leads to better learning. But ...

Does math really teach you how to think, or is that just what teachers tell you so you’ll study your integrals? In this live interview from the Aspen Ideas Festival, Ira asks mathematicians and ...

When it comes to interest in math, 51 percent of students participating in a recent survey said they are naturally interested, while 25 percent cited a good teacher sparked their interest, and 11 ...

A new study reveals that 9- and 10-year-old children who are aerobically fit tend to have significantly thinner gray matter and do better on math tests than their 'lower-fit' peers. A new study ...

This article is part of the collection: What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project. It’s the first day of school. Students are lined up outside your door, ...

We teach the wrong math, tested in the wrong way, writes Ted Dintersmith.

Why does curriculum in early-grades math matter? And when a federally sponsored study comes out that appears to favor two types of curricula in particular, how should we interpret it? A researcher, a ...

When the American College Testing Board released the results of 2013 SAT performance, they found that, once again, boys outperformed girls on the mathematics section of the test. In fact, this sex ...