Honestly, most of us at some point in school have looked at a blackboard full of symbols, squiggles, and something that suspiciously resembled hieroglyphics and asked the most logical question, "Where ...

We teach the wrong math, tested in the wrong way, writes Ted Dintersmith.

Why it matters: Math quizzes combine entertainment and education, helping you boost problem-solving skills while having fun. What’s available: From kindergarten-level basics to advanced algebra and ...

Research Fellow in Mathematical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine When we go to the cinema, we expect certain things of big-screen scientists. Most of us will get annoyed if a ...

Compulsory maths for year 12 students! I’d like to see that – or would I? There was much discussion recently about making it compulsory for year 12 students in NSW to study some mathematics. As a card ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education.

I teach people how to teach math, and I’ve been working in this field for 30 years. Across those decades, I’ve met many people who suffer from varying degrees of math trauma — a form of debilitating ...

He was supposed to be working on long-form multiplication problems—457 x 214, 378 x 29, 112 x 978—and my son kept asking me to check his answers. But it had been so long since I’d written out any math ...