As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and ...

There is a lot more to math than just equations on a chalkboard. It is a very useful set of tools for tackling problems in many different fields. Math tactics affect our environment in ways that most ...

When students begin to see themselves as math thinkers, they engage actively, explore creatively, and feel more motivated.

The following are three examples of calculation strategies students might discover on their own if they were taught standard algorithms first and allowed to master them before moving on. The ...

Kayla Thuemler, a first grade teacher in Milwaukee, shows other teachers how she solved a subtraction problem during a professional development session on math teaching. Credit: Abby J. McFarland for ...

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

A relic from long before the age of supercomputers, a 169-year-old math strategy called the Jacobi iterative method is widely dismissed today as too slow to be useful. But thanks to a curious, numbers ...