Even when elementary school teachers understand math concepts, they often feel unprepared to teach the fundamentals of the subject to young students. To address this problem, some states have called ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...