Figuring out a word problem. Calculating area and perimeter. Finding the measure of an unknown angle. All these tasks, and more, draw on an essential foundation of math knowledge, said Brian Bushart, ...

Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler spends a lot of time worrying about how math education in the United States traumatizes kids. Recently, a colleague’s 7-year-old came home from school and ...

When you’re solving a challenging math problem, you know your brain is working hard. But what, exactly, is going on in there? Despite decades of research into math teaching and learning, there is ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

Many students complain and question math learning in school because they feel it isn’t necessary for their future lives. However, many students don’t realize that math is used and applied everywhere.

New research shows that if you want to be good at math, you have to practice all different kinds of mathematics. New research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology shows that if you ...