In December, Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office released its latest student-testing results, and delivered ...

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

From cursive drills to slide-rule math, many classroom skills Boomers mastered aren’t required today. These eight near-obsolete habits reveal how schools—and work—changed, and what modern equivalents ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about numbers. And while that may seem daunting, most kids enjoy sharpening their math ...

Children’s first encounters with math usually happen at the breakfast table or on the playground, not in a classroom. Developmental scientists have long known that these everyday experiences – like ...

Can kids truly master math by simply memorizing facts? A new report reveals that the key lies in a powerful instructional cycle that blends conceptual learning, brief timed practice, and thoughtful ...