As an excellent Columbus Dispatch series highlights, strong mathematics skills are essential for students’ career success and Ohio’s long-term economic growth. Yet nearly 44% of our students annually ...

Re: “Latest new math multiplies frustration,” by Abby McCloskey, Sunday Opinion. I read with interest this article about the newly adopted Eureka math curriculum. I am a 30-year veteran Dallas ISD ...

Count, calculate, differentiate between odd and even numbers, recognize alphabet letters, sort vowels and consonants… While playing, children exercise with numbers and letters. 3 difficulty levels ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

I appreciate it when our letter writers drill down into specifics and cite data to back up their opinions. But math can be tricky, and sometimes the numbers don’t add up. We do our best to double ...

Re: “Does more math in high school add up?” (Page B1, April 15): Most people agree that our children are falling behind the rest of the world, especially in the STEM subject areas. How can anyone ...

Is Common Core math another bad idea, like New Math fiasco? Re: “A common frustration: Parents, forget what you know about math — Common Core is ‘absolutely insane’,” (Page A1, June 17): This article ...