Lindsey Henderson hopes to change the conversation about math in her state. As student math performance declined in Utah and states across the nation over the pandemic, most learning-recovery efforts ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. In Sarah Cuddihy’s 1st grade class at Driscoll School here, ...

One snowy January day, I asked a classroom of college students to tell me the first word that came to mind when they thought about mathematics. The top two words were “calculation” and “equation.” ...

Susan Sonnenschein received a small grant from the Psychology Department at UMBC for some of the research discussed in this article . Rebecca Dowling and Shari Renee Metzger do not work for, consult, ...

Blaise Pascal independently rediscovered classical geometry at the age of 12 despite a ban on formal maths studies. His early ...

Mathematics education in the United States is broken. Open any newspaper and stories of math failure shout from the pages: low international rankings, widespread innumeracy in the general population, ...

Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle each ...