City test scores soared this year, with some kids crediting easier tests, and others pointing to a regular diet of practice and drills. “They stopped giving us free-time periods,” said Matt’s ...

Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, researchers boosted kindergarteners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick computer ...

During D.C. Public Schools’ Family Math Night, parents got a firsthand look at how to help their students with math concepts ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

It’s widely accepted that teachers and parents should praise the effort kids make – rather than praise their innate ability – if they want their students and children to be successful. Similarly, a ...

We need the best approaches we can find for kids in class now: Teachers and students can’t wait years for new research. Getty Images We need “new ways to measure how well our kids think, not how well ...

A new study finds that parents who show anxiety about math can cause the same nervousness in their children, resulting in lower test scores. As you sit there trying to calculate that grocery bill or ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...