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

Students who struggle early on with basic reading and math skills may continue to have a hard time as they progress through school. But many early grade teachers with students struggling in math ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

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Fierce wars continue to rage around math instruction, but there are many practical changes we should make for mathematics students upon which most of us can probably agree, that could transform their ...

I am a bit troubled by this new column from state Superintendent Richard Woods in which he decries “funny math methods.” I have never understood the assumption that somehow, if parents in Georgia ...