A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

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