Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

Math proficiency in the United States has reached a breaking point, and fragmented reforms are no longer enough. A new report from K12 Coalition(TM) and Bellwether calls for urgent, system-wide action ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

For years, math was something you either get or you don't. But it doesn't have to be that way, according to several Green Bay area school districts.

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, ...

The NYT tells us that China is facing a demographic crisis due to the aging of the population and should try to encourage families to have more kids (seriously, read the article). It’s hard to know ...

The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the most famous problems in that set. It’s about prime numbers. That’s any whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself – like 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11.

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

Fort Hays State University’s Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science hosted its 46th annual Math Relays on Nov. 13 in ...