FOR ONE school year, college students who had taken a problem-solving class taught by former Ateneo president Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, SJ, and myself, volunteered to coach talented elementary and ...

Think Through Math is a web-based program that allows elementary aged students to practice and prepare for the often intense state math tests that they will endure in later years. At this critical age ...

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for ...

The Math Resource is an interactive math dictionary that lets students become their own math tutor. It covers a comprehensive list of topics from algebra to group theory. Each topic has its own ...

Under Common Core, parents are likely to see some unfamiliar terms on their children’s elementary-school math homework. Here are some examples drawn from New York state’s math curriculum: –Grade 2 ...

“This adds to a growing body of research illustrating the importance of teaching children concepts as well as having them practice solving problems.” In math class, teachers typically demonstrate a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...