It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...

Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...

Bill Gates wrote a blog post in October suggesting three ways to improve math education. He says he believes math skills are a "powerful indicator" of future success. Gates, once criticized by a ...

When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer's study shows Andhra Pradesh's PAL model boosts student learning, cost-effective ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...

Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle each ...

Anything new takes a little time to get used to, and that's the case for educators who've been using other approaches and were themselves taught math differently, writes Brittany duPont.(Berezko / ...

BALTIMORE -- Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...