Rita Bennett understands that teaching math to her second graders these days adds up to a whole lot more than 2 + 2 = 4. On one recent morning she presented the following problem to her Simi Valley, ...

Here’s a disturbing equation: Anxiety about doing math, plus female elementary school teachers, equals a drag on math achievement for some first- and second-grade girls. Female teachers’ discomfort ...

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as, ...

Math is currently being taught in a way most people over the age of 30 may not understand. It doesn’t take anything more than a multi-step subtraction problem to result in a wide spectrum of reactions ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BONN, Germany (StudyFinds.org) – Apparently, ...

To the editor: Stanford professor Jo Boaler is hopeful about new approaches to teaching math, and I am hopeful too. In school, I encountered the wall of indifference in learning math that Boaler talks ...