Unlike other elementary and middle school mathematics courses, algebra begins to introduce abstract relationships and ideas. While textbooks attempt to give students real-world illustrations of these ...

For some time now, school leaders have struggled to recruit staff to teach certain subjects. Efforts to tackle the shortage have so far failed to produce the numbers required, but if we want top ...

Can students learn algebra from Instagram and video games? Teaching researcher Candace Walkington, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, thinks so. Walkington's newest study, funded by the National ...

A popular humorist and avowed mathphobe once declared that in real life, there’s no such thing as algebra. Kathie Wilson knows better. Most of the students in her 8th grade class will be thrust into ...

When it comes to education, mathematics has long been considered one of the most challenging of subjects both to learn and to teach. A startup out of Barcelona called Innovamat believes it’s come up ...

From more than 50 years of teaching experience, I’ve learned that elementary school teachers are typically more comfortable teaching reading. They delight in watching students become readers. They ...

The teaching and learning of linear algebra have evolved significantly over recent decades, underpinned by diverse approaches ranging from theoretical expositions to dynamic, model-based environments.

Prisms VR, an immersive platform for teaching math, announced it’s raised $12.5 million in a Series A round, which the company says will be used to expand its VR math literacy platform to more schools ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

Math has never been my strong suit. I opted out of it at every turn, particularly in college, where I enrolled in linguistics to fulfill my quantitative reasoning requirement. I even tried to overcome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE -- Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have ...