Each year more U.S. parents find that their children’s mathematics home work is vastly different from what math was when they went to school. This is the “new math,” and the change goes back to 1952, ...

Remember when you learned numbers in school? Those days are long gone. Kids today are expected to know their numbers up to 20 before they even begin kindergarten. Get started now so your child is ...

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Historically, students have been led to believe that they are either destined to be good at math or that they just “aren’t a math person.” At Springfield (MO) Public Schools, we wanted all of our ...

I can only rely on their appraisal of the quality of the teaching. In my day, as economists of a certain age like to say, I was taught and later did teach from reports in that morning’s newspaper ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...