About a decade ago, leaders at the Kentucky Department of Education set out to develop guidelines for what quality math instruction should looked like in the state, convening educators from the ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

BALTIMORE -- Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

California has new guidelines for teaching math in public schools. The guidelines propose things like delaying algebra until the 9th grade. And offering classes like data science instead of advancing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 16—The Ohio Senate's version of the state budget bill would change the way Ohio students learn math. Ohio schools' math and ...

In 1979, the artist James Inoli Murphy tried out the idea of using string figures—those cat’s-cradle games of loops and knots—to teach math to recalcitrant students. “It is a pleasure, it is an active ...

Math is not everyone's favorite subject—it can be frustrating and tedious when equations seem to come from thin air and concepts lack proper context. A great solution to this problem would be a class ...