Lindsey Henderson hopes to change the conversation about math in her state. As student math performance declined in Utah and states across the nation over the pandemic, most learning-recovery efforts ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. In Sarah Cuddihy’s 1st grade class at Driscoll School here, ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Can young children learn mathematics? What is the best way to teach them? Herbert P. Ginsburg, a developmental psychologist at Teachers College, Columbia University, has been studying those questions ...

Mathematics education in the United States is broken. Open any newspaper and stories of math failure shout from the pages: low international rankings, widespread innumeracy in the general population, ...

Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle each ...