From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new ...

Both Molina, a first-year teacher, and her students had been trained to tackle word problems by zeroing in on key words like “and,” “more” and “total” — a simplistic approach that Molina said too ...

Positive parental help could make the difference between students being excited about math or falling behind during the pandemic, said Jennifer Bay-Williams, co-author of “Elementary and Middle School ...

A math education professor at the University of Illinois says the ability to solve geometry and algebra problems and teaching such subjects perpetuates so-called white privilege.

Julie Wright, a middle school math teacher in Portland, Ore., says she’s seeing a lot more activity on the Wiki she built for teachers to share social-justice math resources.

The field of math education is cluttered with bad and untested ideas. The Gates Foundation is spending more than a billion dollars to try to find a way forward.