Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

Dyscalculia is a severe and persistent learning disability in math that affects about 5 to 8 percent of school-age children. Due to its impact on students’ ability to learn and retain basic math facts ...

Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

Boost your math skills with simple, practical guides designed to help students understand concepts faster and more effectively. From algebra to geometry, these tips and tricks make learning math ...

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

One of the joys of being an educator is embracing all the differences every student brings to the classroom, while teaching them to celebrate those unique traits in themselves and each other. Yet, ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

Faengsrud founded House of Math in 2006, bootstrapping it from a one-woman tutoring service into a platform with over 2.6 million users.

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

Walking out onto the sunny parking lot at St. Catherine of Siena earlier this school year, nine middle schoolers crowded around their teacher’s green Kia Soul and geared up to change a tire for the ...

Rulers and calculators slid back and forth across desks and erasers scrubbed at incorrect answers as students coached each other through math questions on a paper test. David Evans’ Hamilton ...