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 ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why. By Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul After the Florida Department of Education rejected dozens of ...