They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

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