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 ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) Tracy Johnston Zager, a 4th grade math teacher from Washington state, has become a rock star among teachers, including ...

Earth City, MO. — ORIGO Education, a leading provider of elementary math solutions from Pre-K to Grade 6, is thrilled to announce the launch of ORIGO Intervention Essentials, an innovative program ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

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 ...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA–Fractions. Decimals. Word problems. With the school year firmly underway, millions of students across America are, once again, struggling in math and are convinced they are not good ...

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 ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

For many of the 4.5 million English language learners (ELLs) in elementary and middle school classrooms, learning and understanding the language of mathematics can be a challenge. Supporting ELLs ...

What is it about math that puts people off? When it comes to reading/English language arts, there is universal agreement that supporting literacy is a priority. Here in the Lowcountry, for example, ...

Inside her fifth-grade classroom at Brandon Elementary School, teacher Jill Carlson sees her students slumped in their chairs ...