Teaching math isn’t just about working through problems. Often, it’s about helping students work through baggage, too. After years of historic declines in math performance nationwide and sharp ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Summer is here. The regular school year has ended. But Alabama’s public schools are cranking back up for elementary summer reading and math camps. These camps are designed for elementary school ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Counting bears are frequently used in early childhood classrooms and may be especially useful for students with math disabilities as they learn that numbers correspond with a certain quantity of items ...

In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been shown to have a profound ...

AND OUR BACK TO SCHOOL COVERAGE NOW. HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE SUMMER SLIDE, HOW STUDENTS LOSE A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT THEY LEARNED IN THE PREVIOUS SCHOOL YEAR? DURING SUMMER BREAK? WELL, ONE LOCAL TECH ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...