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, ...

The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new ...

Top Strategies for Enhancing Your Math Skills!!More for You Trump budget proposes closing Northeast heating oil reserve Jonathan Joss, ‘King of the Hill' Actor, Dies in Shooting at 59 ...

Creating opportunities to talk about math builds understanding and strengthens language development for all ...

During the COVID-19 crisis, students’ performance in math has taken a hit more than any other content area, according to a recent study by the NWEA. And, since math concepts build upon one ...

Linda C. Fisher, Strategies Used by Secondary Mathematics Teachers to Solve Proportion Problems, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Mar., 1988), pp. 157-168 ...

Cognition and Instruction, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1986), pp. 109-126 (18 pages) Two experiments were conducted to explore possible differences in inferential processing in math problem and story contexts. The ...

Project Summary The project explores the effects of spatial representations of number magnitude on children's learning of advanced arithmetic strategies, a key predictor of math achievement. A series ...

The difference in math instruction isn’t the only difference between the two countries’ education systems, though. Singapore has a national math curriculum.