Connecting math to real-world problems gives students a more sophisticated understanding of how math works. Ditch Those Math Worksheets. The Case for Teaching Real-World Problem Solving in K-5 ...

Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while Abigail, 7, pulls addition ...

There are many, many things a kid (or really anybody) might find more appealing than an unending digital math worksheet, and so on a given day I would look on as a girl ate hot sunflower seeds and ...

NEW YORK – Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his ...

It's called vedic math, and some of your children's classmates think it's making their brains calculate faster than calculators. Shanaya Amernath is solving a worksheet of math problems.

A student works a problem in a second grade math class at Place Bridge Academy, May 20, 2025, in Denver. Early experiences with math can shape whether a student decides they're a "math person" or not.

One approach to early elementary word problems that is taking off in some schools, including Segue Institute, has its origins in a special education intervention for struggling math students.

In a bid to improve state test scores, New York City public schools have embarked on a major undertaking to standardize math instruction across its middle and high schools — but some teachers ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States, pushed by the space race with the Soviets, introduced "new math," a movement away from everyday problem solving toward a focus on abstract structures ...