The opportunity to reflect on what they know helps students strengthen their mathematical understanding and supports ...

Thirty-eight percent of young adults think math is very important in their work life; fewer believe it’s important in their ...

“But I’m not naturally gifted in math,” he adds. Sayef’s mom, Sabrina, says her son first started having trouble with math concepts in the fourth grade, and she wasn’t much help at home.

But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our long-held confidence. It turns out that the math skills we learned in elementary school can ...

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Fortunately, parents — even those who count themselves among the 30 percent of U.S. adults who lack basic math skills — can help their kids improve in, and maybe even enjoy, the subject.

Help your child read books that incorporate math, such as "Millions of Cats" by Wanda Gag, or"OnBeyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey," by David Schwartz. Consult online resources ...

Kids succeed in math if parents think they can Here is the bad news. We didn’t succeed in lowering parents’ math anxiety. Parents were just as anxious about math whether they did Bedtime Math ...

Help them learn to become more independent. When children know you support them no matter what, they are more likely to seek help. Stop the negative math talk Never tell your child that you weren’t a ...

Are students’ math struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic completely unprecedented? Yes and no. Disruption in schools has also meant disruption in testing, so it’s been hard to pin down ...

Opinion: The Lone Star State has spent decades striving to expand access to Advanced Placement (AP) math courses, but the ...

A Missouri school district is now making its math curriculum more gender inclusive, updating word problems and other language-based math equations with "they/them" pronouns. As presented in a ...