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Are math problems bugging your kids? Tell them to talk back -- using their hands. Psychologists report that gesturing can help kids add new and correct problem-solving strategies to their mathematical ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

The University of Arizona’s Center of the Recruitment and Retention of Mathematics Teachers (CRR) is offering strategies to ...

I have a friend who’s a world-renowned mathematician. He doesn’t think like me. Or you. Or, indeed, anyone else I know. This is a good thing — certainly for him. Especially as mathematicians of one ...

The California State Board of Education voted to adopt a new—and much-debated—math framework on Wednesday, concluding a years-long process that involved three drafts, prompted hundreds of suggested ...

Remember the principal who spent a night on the roof of Coolidge Elementary after daring his students to hit one million math problems? Turns out that rooftop sleepover was just the beginning.

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

Want to help your sixth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your sixth-grader will be learning in the classroom. In a herd of horses, the ratio of legs to tails is 4 to 1 (or 4:1) because ...