Educators may be teaching students to have a math phobia rather than teaching them to love the subject. On Monday our school celebrated the 100th Day. If you have ever spent time in an elementary ...

In life, the fallout from a thoughtless or misguided decision can be severe. In mathematics, it’s nothing that an eraser can’t fix. Teaching students not to be afraid of mistakes is Walker White’s ...

This article is presented in partnership with CA Lottery. More kids are scared of fractions than they are of Frankenstein. Anxiety about math, if not addressed, can quickly escalate and make it harder ...

You're at a big group dinner and it's time to pay up, to divide the total and multiply a certain percentage for the tip. How many people tense up and say something like, "Oh, I'm so bad at math"? Fear ...

Most of us either loved or hated math in school. If you grew up with negative feelings about math, you can avoid inadvertently passing these attitudes to your children. When I taught math in grade ...

One of this country's leading mathematics educators has a formula for solving the problem: Recognize that basic calculation skills and rules are only about one-fourth of what students need to know, ...

Look, I’ve never been good at math. I still get palpitations when I think about how my fifth grade teacher at Portage Path Elementary School made us do arithmetic on an overhead projector in front of ...

As a parent, I want my child to be happy, unafraid, and to have the things I didn't growing up. All that comes together with the subject of math, which made me unhappy, fearful, and dead-ended at ...

So, you think you want to be an engineer, or perhaps a computer programmer and rake in the big bucks. But the thought of all those math courses you will have to take in college sort of scares you. You ...