Discovery math has been dealt another blow, with Ontario's Education Minister departing from her province's curriculum guidelines and declaring that she expects school children to have a more solid ...

Mathematics is often thought of as a subject that a student either understands or doesn't, with little in between. In reality, mathematics encompasses a wide variety of skills and concepts. Although ...

Carol Atkinson holds a stopwatch as the second-graders in her room fish pencils from their desks, a worksheet of 25 addition problems in front of them. “Ready, set, start,” Atkinson says, and they’re ...

Vedic Math Puzzle: This Vedic math puzzle demands your quantitative and cognitive skills. Do you think you will be able to solve this one? Vedic Math Puzzle: A Vedic math puzzle is a mathematical ...

The Alberta government has bent to pressure from parents for curriculum changes and will require students to memorize their multiplication tables starting this fall, dealing a setback to the ...

Who knew the so-called math wars could get so heated? Readers made this the most e-mailed story of the week at chicagotribune.com. For nearly two decades, a battle has raged over the best way to teach ...