Beginning to understand fractions and how parts and wholes work together. Beginning to understand fractions and how parts and wholes work together.

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...

Back in 2019, Po-Shen Loh—an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and national coach of the U.S. International Mathematics Olympiad—taught the world a new way of solving quadratic ...

Elections are all about numbers, sometimes hinging on miniscule percentage-point differences in turnouts. Math teacher Alison Strole’s middle school students know this better than your average ...

Children do better at math when music is a key part of their lessons, an analysis of almost 50 years of research on the topic has revealed. It is thought that music can make math more enjoyable, keep ...

Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

Like many students around the world, Eithne, 14, in Chorley, United Kingdom, was struggling to keep up in math at school after more than a year of COVID-19 related disruptions. In June 2021, her ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...