After a year of distance learning, the range of skill levels in math class is very wide, with some students still learning concepts from several grades behind. That means teachers have to get creative ...

Ease kids’ math anxiety while entertaining them at bedtime? No problem, says Laura Overdeck, whose Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late sets out to do both. Due out this month from Feiwel and ...

A dozen parents gathered around veteran math educator Leanna Baker, moments before students show up for what is billed as a math “festival” for students at Allendale Elementary School in Oakland. “Do ...

Numbers and algorithms aren’t just useful to mathematician Eugenia Cheng -- they’re exhilarating. That’s why she’s on a mission to help transform math’s notoriously boring reputation in education into ...

At the University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ‘ times zero equals zero.” Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the ...

Back in 2008, I read a story about a teacher who used NASCAR to make learning math less painful for his students. Tom Baughman, then teaching the fourth grade, called it “NASCAR Math,” and takes the ...

Contrary to popular belief, math can be fun in games. The arithmetic segments in Nintendo's Brain Age games are an enjoyable challenge, and my wife swears that Donkey Kong Jr. Math is one of the ...