Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them.

Last year Kyle Ledoux got C's in math, but this year he's earning A's. The Morgan Park Middle School seventh-grader attributes it to a new math curriculum his class helped test for the district: a ...

A math handout sent home by teachers at my son's school struck me as so absurd that I thought for sure the parents were getting punked. The exercise demonstrated how to do the new way of long division ...

Studies show that students usually have to relearn four to six weeks of classwork at the beginning of every school year. And if there’s anything kids forget, it’s math. With your trusty iPad and a few ...

Figuring out a word problem. Calculating area and perimeter. Finding the measure of an unknown angle. All these tasks, and more, draw on an essential foundation of math knowledge, said Brian Bushart, ...

International tests scores released this month provide further evidence that U.S. students are behind where they should be in math, a problem that has huge implications for their success in school and ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...