Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Math education is plagued with superficially appealing phrases and ideas that aren’t aligned with how students learn. Many students find math difficult or think they are incapable of doing it. Ideas ...

A recent report of the National Research Council, 2 Adding It Up, reviews a broad research base on the teaching and learning of elementary school mathematics. The report argues for an instructional ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hate math? Relax; it may not be about you. Fear of math represents not personal failure or a missing gene but wrongheaded "one-size-fits-all" ways of teaching. That, at least, is ...

At parents’ night this fall, a high school math teacher I know begged parents to teach their children long division “the old-fashioned way.” She explained that the new way students had learned long ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. For many people, free association with the word “mathematics” would produce strong, ...