Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. lag behind students in nearly 30 other countries in math. Some believe that mediocre performance can be traced back to preschool, where many kids aren’t even exposed to ...

Frustrated math students may have a good excuse — some of the teaching methods meant to make math more relevant may in fact be making it harder to understand, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. They ...

For nearly two decades, a battle has raged over the best way to teach elementary and high school math. On one side sit fundamentalists, who prefer old-fashioned drilling and a focus on the basics. On ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Frustrated math students may have a good excuse -- some of the teaching methods meant to make math more relevant may in fact be making it harder to understand, U.S. researchers ...

Summer weekdays start with a reading and math exercise at the Killeen household in the Bellevue School District. Kira, 8, and Nate, 10, work through multiplication problems in a textbook filled with ...

Recent state test results revealed that many Alabama elementary school students need help with math skills. Fewer than half of third through fifth graders were proficient in math. This trend isn’t new ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2010), pp. 228-255 (28 pages) Teachers' understanding of the elementary school mathematics curriculum forms part, but ...