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 ...

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 ...

(Phys.org) —When early elementary math teachers ask students to explain their problem-solving strategies and then tailor instruction to address specific gaps in their understanding, students learn ...

Recently, I watched an interesting video on YouTube. A student who was accepted into the Tokyo Institute of Technology—now the Institute of Science Tokyo—was talking about how to study mathematics.

It?s called vedic math, and some of your children?s classmates think it's making their brains calculate faster than calculators HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A mental math system developed in the 1800's is ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

Regardless of whether you support or deplore the rapidly expanding appeal of the casual-games market, it looks as if it’s here to stay, with Nintendo’s Wii console and DS handheld opening new doors ...

There’s never just one way to solve a math problem, says Jon R. Star, a psychologist and professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. With researchers from Vanderbilt University ...

Make word problems less intimidating and more visual for your 4th graders with these Bar Model Word Problem Worksheets! Designed around the Singapore Math bar model method, this resource helps ...