As parents and teachers struggle to improve their children’s mathematics education, they are getting mixed messages on what constitutes quality instruction in that critical subject. Consider, for ...

From the NY Times, an article “As Math Scores Lag, a New Push for the Basics” about rethinking the teaching of “fuzzy math” in American schools. “The changes are being driven by students’ lagging ...

Marianne Jennings, an Arizona State business professor, has brought enlightenment to multitudes. With her commentaries on her daughter Sarah’s eighth-grade math book (“MTV Math,” she calls it, for its ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President George W. Bush today brushed aside reports that he was sliding precipitously in the polls, blaming his poor ...

We need the best approaches we can find for kids in class now: Teachers and students can’t wait years for new research. Getty Images We need “new ways to measure how well our kids think, not how well ...

Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...

THE NATIONAL Council of Teachers of Mathematics released new guidelines that, for example, call on fourth-graders to know multiplication tables and division. Oddly, it's big news when math teachers ...

What constitutes quality mathematics instruction? And, if we don’t have it in schools now, how do we get it? In this Education Week Commentary, Jere Confrey warns that setting standards will not be ...

DO you know what math curriculum your child is being taught? Are you worried that your third- grader hasn’t learned simple multiplication yet? Have you been befuddled by educational jargon such as ...

Seeking votes in this crucial state where polls show a presidential race that’s tighter than ever, Vice President Al Gore on Saturday lobbed some of George W. Bush’s own attacks back at him. Using ...