Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...

Education Week spoke with three award-winning teachers about how they help students persevere in the math classroom.

The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new study.

In the last two decades, we have developed a much better understanding of how to teach math – and how to prepare teachers to teach math. Here are four tips.

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of “new math” to the renewed focus on phonics, the story of modern education is ...

Singapore teaches students starting with attitudes and thought processes, Resnick explained to the teachers, whereas American math education usually gets bogged down in the skills and concepts.

Despite their “miniature brains,” honeybees can harness both long-term rules and short-term memory in order to solve math problems.

To the editor: Math classes should be eliminated and replaced by another recess period. In other words, if mathematics or arithmetic was taught as puzzles to be explored and as a fun activity ...

BALTIMORE -- Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even ...

BALTIMORE -- Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even ...