Creating opportunities to talk about math builds understanding and strengthens language development for all ...

How often do teachers talk to students about multiple strategies, and how to select them, in math problem-solving? Students in the [United States] are very rarely doing rich contextual problems.

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

Lufkin Independent School District math teacher Bridget Streeb, standing left, outlines her group's algorithm for guessing a random word in the dictionary during a Math Teachers' Circle meeting ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the ...

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and without math difficulties. Researchers found that using interventions to ...

As compared with the baseline phase, the strategy increased problem-solving ability for all participants. All students maintained performance levels during follow-up sessions. Results suggest that the ...

Rather than equipping kids to compete with computers by solving the same types of problems over and over again, let's challenge them to solve new problems and become the leaders of tomorrow.