Doing repetitive computational problems for just a few minutes a day can help students grow their math muscles—and their ...

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 ...

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

Families might be wondering why their child's math classroom looks so different from what they remember in school. Why aren't teachers putting students on the spot and getting them to prove that they ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Even the best math teachers have had students who ace the chapter tests just to go on and struggle with that same content on the final exam—or students who have a hard time grasping more advanced ...

Meeting every 5th grader’s math needs means moving beyond one-size-fits-all lessons. Differentiation, flexible grouping, and targeted interventions help bridge gaps and challenge advanced learners.

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 ...