Tapping out a beat may help children learn difficult fraction concepts, according to new findings. An innovative curriculum uses rhythm to teach fractions at a California school where students in a ...

Duolingo is launching its math app to the public months after a beta version joined the app store. The math app, named Duolingo Math, is the first subject expansion that Duolingo has made beyond its ...

Fractions are a notoriously tricky part of elementary math education for many children. Too often teachers struggle to ensure students are grasping the conceptual underpinnings of this complicated ...

Imagine being an elementary school student and trying to figure out math problems with 75 teachers peering over your shoulder–Daves Avenue Elementary School principal Kit Bragg likened it to being in ...

There are some basic properties of numbers any 3rd grader can tell you: Each number is represented by a single symbol, and followed by a single successor. Multiplication makes a number bigger; ...

Have you ever tried to add or subtract fractions that have different denominators? It’s tricky, right? Join Ms. Susanna Post in this lesson to learn how to solve these types of challenging problems!

For many elementary teachers, fractions have traditionally sprung to mind lessons involving pizzas, pies, and chocolate bars, among other varieties of “wholes” that can be shared. But in what many ...

Math teachers know that fractions can be hard for the average third-grader. Teachers at a public school in San Bruno, Calif., just south of San Francisco, are trying something new. They're teaching ...

Over at Motion Math Games, a developer GeekDad has long admired for bringing math to kinesthetic learners, they have put their app where more apps should be - under the researcher's microscope. They ...

A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods. Base 10 blocks work for all basic operations of addition, subtraction, ...