The following are three examples of calculation strategies students might discover on their own if they were taught standard algorithms first and allowed to master them before moving on. The ...

Justin Reich, who writes the Education Week opinion blog EdTech Researcher, had a nice post last week about the value of studying student work. The common core’s Standards for Mathematical Practice ...

We’ve all gone through the school system and most of us have suffered through 12 years of math curriculum not enjoying a single moment of it. With seemingly no answer to why we have not changed the ...

Quick: what’s 4 + 5? Nine right? Slightly less quick: what’s five plus four? Still nine, right? Okay, let’s wait a few seconds. Bear with me. Feel free to have a quick stretch. You’ve just performed a ...

If calculating costs while shopping, scaling up a recipe or making a budget sends your brain into meltdown, the culprit could be maths anxiety. The chances are it started during your school days — but ...

From birth, the young child is involved in the science and math processes. Parents verbalize their wonder and begin teaching the young child about his/her number of toes and other body parts. Parents ...

Dear Dr. Fournier My son, who is in the seventh grade, continuously talks about how he hates math. He says he is stupid in math and that's all there is to it. He does better on achievement tests than ...