Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

Long, long ago, in the time before video and computer games, young children whiled away many an hour playing board games like Chutes and Ladders. Little did we know then that we were sharpening our ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. “I’ve seen enthusiasm in some of the children who normally didn’t do as well, paper-to-pencil, but when ...

The future elementary school teachers that Mark Montgomery works with at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, share a common fear: Most of them are “extremely anxious” about math.

Students’ math skills may have suffered more during the pandemic than their reading skills. Standardized test scores dropped 11 percentage points in math from 2019 to 2021, compared to just 4 points ...

Ellen Peters receives funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Brittany Shoots-Reinhard receives funding from the National Science Foundation and National ...

November 6, 2025 - A new law aims to get more teachers instructing kids in how to sound out words to be able to access the joy of reading. It is just as natural for young children to think ...