Veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered that math can be taught in an engaging way through the ancient game of mahjong, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Kids often seem to hate math, but not in Kara Nelson's class. The teacher at Bozeman's new ...

My fifth-grade twins have been at our Title I elementary school since Pre-K and loved it. It’s a small school with dedicated staff who go above and beyond to provide our global majority, ...

I've been teaching second and third-graders mathematical problem solving for six years. In that time, I've learned that kids are more apt to enjoy math if they already have a strong foundation. Kids ...

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

John Mighton, a mathematician and playwright, is the founder of JUMP Math, a charity that provides training and resources to teachers and parents. He is the author of "The End of Ignorance" and was ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Education Secretary John King on Tuesday doubled down on his effort to support a well-rounded education for the USA’s schoolchildren, unveiling a curriculum that embeds music into ...

A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

At the tender age of 7, while most kids were learning to ride bikes and play video games, Natalia was pondering early principles of multiplication and algebra two hours per week in her Russian math ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...

At dinner tables across Florida, parents and their elementary school children are trying to solve a math problem: What’s going on with my kid’s homework? Florida is one of dozens of states that has ...