Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. In Sarah Cuddihy’s 1st grade class at Driscoll School here, ...

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 ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that giving high school students ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

Deep, active learning of mathematics for all students. We applaud this goal of California’s new math framework, an increasingly urgent priority in our data-rich, technology-enhanced age. However, the ...

This story is part of a series from the national Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID ...

Timed math fluency exercises—in which students are asked to solve a certain number of problems within a minute or two—do not appear to exacerbate students’ math anxiety, new research finds. The study, ...

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students Buoyed by their successful strategies for early literacy, California legislators and advocacy groups ...

Rulers and calculators slid back and forth across desks and erasers scrubbed at incorrect answers as students coached each other through math questions on a paper test. David Evans’ Hamilton ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math ...