Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about mathematics. "You and your daughter can have fun throwing eggs off a building and making papier-mâché volcanoes, but ...

Done well, frequent practice can help students gain both procedural fluency and conceptual understanding in math Source: Chris Liverani/Unsplash Should U.S. students be doing more math practice and ...

New research shows that if you want to be good at math, you have to practice all different kinds of mathematics. New research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology shows that if you ...

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 ...

Even the best math teachers have had students who ace the chapter tests just to go on and struggle with that same content on the final exam—or students who have a hard time grasping more advanced ...

More than 1 in 3 public school students now take Algebra 1 before high school. For those students to succeed, schools must adjust middle school programs to better match student readiness to class ...

Algebra teachers should show students both correctly and incorrectly solved problems and have students discuss them, according to a new algebra practice guide published by the U.S. Department of ...

From electrical engineering and music to veterinary science, math is a critical component of many college majors. Even reading- and writing-heavy majors like English and history may be subject to math ...

The article on test scores concentrates on budget shortfalls but pays little heed to the root causes of the problem, (“Oregon’s near-worst-in-nation education outcomes prompt a reckoning on school ...