We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming ...

A top-rated public university says many of its students can’t round numbers or add fractions.

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

The University of California San Diego has reported a staggering 30-fold increase in the number of students unable to do ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

How do you help students learn those pesky multiplication tables? At Alcova Elementary in Dacula, you literally put them in front of students' feet. The idea began with the help of math education ...

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Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...