A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

As nine students cluster in a semi-circle in Gail Younie’s cozy summer school classroom at Stephensen Elementary in Southwest Portland, the baggies full of brightly-colored two-dimensional Styrofoam ...

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In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

I remember my youthful days in high school and college, the constant struggle with math was a horrible experience. I came across this article on children who have trouble with math and it was as if ...