Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Confidence in your ability to learn is the key to success in math class! Some students who experience difficulty or struggle learning in math class give up because they think that they are not capable ...

American adults surveyed in a new Gallup poll are sorry they didn’t learn more math when they were in school. A majority of the 5,000 people who took the survey said that math skills are important in ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Math teacher Charity Ann Chambers helps students “embrace mistakes.” Credit: Maya McFadden Photo ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...