The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new ...

New research on mathematics teachers suggests that having “mathematical knowledge for teaching” matters for students’ learning.

Teaching math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set L of lumber for a set M of money. The cardinality of set M is 100. Each element is worth $1. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set M.

Those standards and the commitment he brings to teaching set an example for other instructors as well, the Local Education & Activities Foundation director said.

A young boy’s video teaching his classmates division in an engaging method went viral, impressing thousands and sparking dreams of a future math teacher.

Set specific, detailed math standards for teacher preparation programs. Review teacher preparation programs to ensure they provide robust math instruction.

Word problems involve reading, executive functioning, problem solving, computation and vocabulary, which means there are a lot of ways for students to go wrong when trying to solve them.

Re “California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash” (front page, Nov. 5): De-emphasizing math, including calculus, in favor of teaching social justice is a false dichotomy ...

Kitrick Fynaardt is a University of Iowa instructor teaching PokéMath: the Mathematics of Pokémon GO and a graduate student in the University's Math department. He is a part-time teaching ...