Grandville’s elementary school leaders are excited about their new tool for teaching math, called Illustrative Mathematics.

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can project-based learning be used in math class? Project-based learning is a popular instructional strategy for many subjects, though it is not used as much in ...

A key goal in developmental education has been optimizing student success in future collegelevel classes. This study compared three sections of a problem-based collaborative learning pilot course of ...

Confidence in your ability to learn is the key to success in math class! Some students who experience difficulty or struggle learning in math class give up because they think that they are not capable ...

The Goldilocks solution to our math crisis is where relatable problems aren’t so simple that there’s no learning but also not ...

California's new math instruction framework may look unfamiliar to parents, but once parents understand the family- and ...

In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...