Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math ...

Looking for some math problem-solving activities for middle school? Good, you’re at the right page then. Right before children enter Middle School (around the age of 11 or 12), they enter a critical ...

NORWALK — As Apostoli Mano marched toward the front of his school’s library, he smiled ear to ear, waving to his mother who took pictures and proudly cheered him on. The fourth-grader was one of 55 ...

In recent decades, K-12 math education has evolved significantly, shifting from rote memorization to fostering conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. Achievement First (AF), a network of ...

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 ...

Wendy Monroy is a Mathematics Coach for the Los Angeles Unified School District in Los Angeles, California and is a member of the Instructional Leadership Corps, a collaboration among the California ...

Teachers struggling to help improve students’ mathematical problem-solving skills have a new resource from the federal What Works Clearinghouse. After poring over a wide range of studies, a panel of ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

The journal Science's "breakthrough of the year" for 2006 is the solution of a century-old math problem. The story behind the solution is quite a soap opera. It includes a Harvard math wizard, a ...

Math is a problem — one that a relentless onslaught of testing has not solved. Some assume kids are the ones failing, but it’s time to acknowledge that it’s our tests and the curriculum they determine ...

OSHKOSH - The timer ticked down as calculators clicked and conversations blended into chatter. Students in teams of four sat at tables with their heads together in the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ...