Measuring might feel like math in the classroom, but at the Tellus Science Museum, it looks a lot more like playtime.

A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for students in pre-K-5 found there are four key elements to ...

What’s the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the most ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. In education circles, early literacy ...

Mathematics anxiety is a feeling of tension and fear when dealing with numbers or performing calculations. It is a common form of academic anxiety: according to an OECD report, around 40% of students ...

During my visits to several schools in villages and nearby semi-urban areas, I encountered a troubling contradiction at the heart of science and mathematics education. These subjects—meant to explain ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...