A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

When I was in grad school at St. Bonaventure studying to become a school district leader, one of my professors told the class that math teachers make the best school administrators because of their ...

Introduction: This systematic review investigates the implementation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in K-12 mathematics education, offering a recent synthesis of current interventions. Methods: In ...

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While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

Re “The UCSD lesson: Math proficiency scandal shows need for standardized tests and folly of dumbing school down” (Nov. 30): Common Core Math was introduced in 2010. As a parent of a high school ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...