There’s a change coming to Ontario’s elementary school math curriculum. The new provincial government says it is responding to a decline of standardized test scores and plans to recommend a return to ...

Here’s a shout out to fellow gray-hairs who learned math the “old-fashioned” way, by memorizing simple formulas along with facts about addition and multiplication. This technique is anathema in ...

The June 8 Metro article "A 'math miracle' or miscalculation?" noting the decline in Bruce-Monroe Elementary School's 2010 math test scores after the school introduced Singapore method for teaching ...

A famous Vietnamese mathematician has said that current math teaching and learning reveal two major bottlenecks: curricula ...

Explicit learning goals Interactive lectures Transformed homework problems (including a "bank" of potential HW problems) Common student difficulties & in-class group activities/tutorials Concept tests ...

I am a bit troubled by this new column from state Superintendent Richard Woods in which he decries “funny math methods.” I have never understood the assumption that somehow, if parents in Georgia ...