Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

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Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

Working furiously, heads bent over in concentration and pencils scribbling fast, they work. Then the teacher says, ”OK, stop.” Sighs of disgust and quick comparisons of answers follow as the papers ...

A three-year, multimillion-dollar experiment to improve 20 struggling HISD schools yielded big gains in math and limited progress in reading, according to partial results of a study released Wednesday ...

How’s this for a prickly real-world math problem: In the United States, only about one-third of eighth graders are proficient in mathematics. Just half of high school graduates taking the ACT are ...

Numbered dice are available in the math games area of a first grade classroom at Truman Elementary School in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. (Liz Martin/The Gazette) Buy Photo Travis Meier’s ...

AMES, Iowa – It happens all the time. Just mentioning the word math sparks an automatic response that is rarely positive. “Whenever I tell people I’m a mathematician they always say, ‘Oh, I hate math, ...

In the past 20 years, parents have taken to heart public-awareness campaigns urging them to read to their children every night. But math initiatives have not gained as much traction—even as emerging ...

My kids have a strange aversion to numbers. They seem to like the idea of quantifying things around them, but when the numbers hit three or four digits we have something of a family mental block.

A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at ...