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As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Today, I read a blog post written by Education Week Teacher contributing blogger John Troutman McCrann, in which he talks about strategies for addressing “math anxiety.” I think the strategy McCrann ...

Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

Las matemáticas. Die Mathematik. Mathematics. No matter the language, the word "math" can cause people everywhere to fill up with boredom, dread, and even anxiety. The problem is so bad that there’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once ...

Parents can improve their preschool child’s math skills by reading specially designed math picture books to them, according to a new study at Purdue University. Through a grant from the Heising-Simons ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math concepts more clearly than English, making it ...