Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored. A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. His students had watched the ...

Multiplication and long division rarely get pep rallies. But Michaela Sicuranza, a 5th grade teacher at Sinking Springs Elementary, in York, Pa., thinks building an exciting, competitive identity ...

It’s an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren’t. Tanya Evans, an associate professor in the School of Education and Human ...

Students’ math scores have plummeted, national assessments show, and educators are working hard to turn math outcomes around. But it’s a challenge, made harder by factors like math anxiety, students’ ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “I’m just bad at math” is a phrase I adopted early in my school career. A straight-A student who filled ...

While I am financially savvy, I’m also into some lighthearted spending logic. And if your math brain works anything like mine, we might agree on some things: anything less than $5 is free; it’s smart ...

“I’m just bad at math” is a phrase I adopted early in my school career. A straight-A student who filled endless notebooks with observations about the world around me, the way numbers were presented by ...