Math. It’s been known to make palms sweat and hearts race. Plenty of Kern County residents — students and parents especially — know how it feels to need a little extra help with the day’s math ...

Across the country, schools are scrambling to catch up students in math as post-pandemic test scores reveal the depth of missing skills.

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level?

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NEW YORK - Parents, here is an assignment for you as the kids head back to school: Are you going to pay your children to do homework and get good grades? Some parents find their kids respond to ...

Part of the problem is that teachers don’t receive the training needed to work with children with math disabilities. Teacher training programs offer little instruction on disabilities of any kind, and ...

Experts say virtual learning complicated math instruction, making it tricky for teachers to guide students over a screen or spot weaknesses in problem-solving skills.

On average students’ math knowledge is about half a school year behind where it should be, according to education analysts.