Come and pull up a chair in Deborah Harper’s senior-level math class, there are plenty to go around because the students don’t use them. Class starts with each student randomly drawing a card which ...

There’s a change coming to Ontario’s elementary school math curriculum. The new provincial government says it is responding to a decline of standardized test scores and plans to recommend a return to ...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Each month, Dayton Daily News reporter Eileen McClory highlights local ideas that improve outcomes for students and teachers in the Dayton area. Last year, the proficiency rate in ...

A new survey report finds that the Common Core State Standards have fostered significant instructional changes in U.S. classrooms. But the research offers less clarity on specific schoolwide ...

Students in some local elementary schools are learning a completely different way of doing multiplication. It’s a technique that many parents can’t understand. It’s called lattice multiplication. The ...

As a young teacher in an East Lansing, Mich., elementary school, Deborah Loewenberg Ball realized teaching mathematics required a special kind of knowledge. Unfortunately, she didn’t have it. Take ...

The predominantly Asian approach to teaching mathematics in schools, called the "mastery approach," is spreading, largely due to the fact these countries are high-performers on international tests.

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We are beginning to see whether these borrowed methods are working in the classroom. My new study, which looked ...