Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Ethnomathematics, a teaching approach that connects math to culture, is emerging as a way to create more engaging and inclusive math classes, particularly for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous students, ...

Math anxiety affects roughly 25 percent of students, which can prevent them from learning and taking more advanced mathematics courses. Fear around the subject can include being in a math class, ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

Almost three-quarters of high school students think that they can be good at math if they work hard, but fewer say they follow through with that effort when the work gets challenging, according to a ...

Teachers in the University of Hawaii’s Ethnomathematics Graduate Program participate in a lesson at the Ka Papa Loʻi O Kānewai cultural heritage center on Hawaiian anthropic measurements using their ...

A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...