Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

One of the challenges to getting students engaged in math is the perception that it’s a subject where you sit at a desk and do 30 math problems alone. There are a number of ways to make math more ...

A teacher here in our area may have finally cracked the code to make math fun.

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, Lavonzell Nicholson, enrolled them in a tutoring program called Make It Count ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Global math archive: MIT and collaborators launched MathNet, the largest Olympiad-level problem collection, spanning 47 countries, 17 languages, and four decades of competitions. Thinking like Fermi: ...

The lesson started with something simple – designing a dream bedroom.For fourth grader Nolan Ochuna, it meant choosing ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

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Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...