The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

It’s a common experience for many New York City parents. They sit down to help their kids with math homework, only to be totally flummoxed. Part of the reason is math instruction has undergone a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The ...

My daughter came to me last Tuesday night with her math homework, and I froze. She's in seventh grade. The worksheet had something about solving two-step equations with variables on both sides, and ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...