When elementary students learn some tools for discussing math, they can start to see it as more than just quickly getting to ...

There’s a line from the original Star Trek where Khan says, “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold.” Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron ...

Mathematics can be a subject that’s a bit unrelatable for some. Perhaps you recall sitting in a math class at some point, wondering, “When am I ever going to use quadratic equations?” But a new book ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help ...

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In the past two decades, researchers have made great strides in uncovering how children learn math, but little of that new knowledge has trickled down to teachers, according to a new book on math ...

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 ...

Education reformers often bemoan that schools never shed programs that are no longer needed or effective. New school initiatives are consequently layered on top of past practices, which means schools ...

This summer, Sarah Cone wrote a provocative essay asking why today’s billionaire philanthropists don’t build institutions the way their predecessors did. As examples, Cone cited Andrew Carnegie ...

Two years ago I walked into a car rental return center in Charlotte and interrupted Adrianette Felix mid-rant. “I can’t even help my own child do her homework, it’s so frustrating, and I feel so ...