From the NY Times, an article “As Math Scores Lag, a New Push for the Basics” about rethinking the teaching of “fuzzy math” in American schools. “The changes are being driven by students’ lagging ...

Marianne Jennings, an Arizona State business professor, has brought enlightenment to multitudes. With her commentaries on her daughter Sarah’s eighth-grade math book (“MTV Math,” she calls it, for its ...

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As parents and teachers struggle to improve their children’s mathematics education, they are getting mixed messages on what constitutes quality instruction in that critical subject. Consider, for ...

Do you know what math curriculum your child is being taught? Are you worried that your third-grader hasn't learned simple multiplication yet? Have you been befuddled by educational jargon such as ...

We need “new ways to measure how well our kids think, not how well they can fill in a bubble on a test,” President Obama told the nation during his State of the Union last week. To which a clever ...

THE words on the Web site were written in red, and the message was chilling: Will there be abloodbath at N.Y.U.? Yesterday, Robert Berkman, the creator of the Web site, sent the link to several ...

Elizabeth H. teaches Grade 10 math in Newmarket, Ont., a pleasant, middle-class bedroom community of Toronto. After 24 years of teaching math, she's still passionate about her work. But the news is ...