Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Latrenda Knighten, the president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, agreed students can learn math concepts at a young age and preschools should teach much more of it. She doesn ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

November 6, 2025 - A new law aims to get more teachers instructing kids in how to sound out words to be able to access the joy of reading. It is just as natural for young children to think ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities Fierce wars continue to rage around math instruction, but there are many practical changes we should make for ...

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 ...

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 ...

California has new guidelines for teaching math in public schools. The guidelines propose things like delaying algebra until the 9th grade. And offering classes like data science instead of advancing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of learning, work and human development. Schools around the world teach calculation. But computers do ...

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