Please let us not give up on teaching high school students how to do advanced math. Let’s just find a better way to teach them.

What’s the best way to teach math? For decades, people in the U.S. have worried about falling behind the rest of the world at math. Some teachers think they have answers.

Susan Hobart asked this week’s “question-of-the-week": What strategies help math facts stick besides the old “drill the skill” and, if someone is not proficient at addition facts, can ...

In the spirit of teaching elementary-age kids in a fun way, Emerson Elementary School teachers are getting creative when it comes to explaining math concepts.

Your book, Mathematics Education For a New Era, argues that video games are the best way to teach math to middle school kids. Can you briefly explain why you feel that way? Mathematics is an activity.

Math literacy needs to be developed early, and toys and play are a great way to do it.

So, if elementary school teachers remember math as important, but not fun, they're likely to teach it as important, but not fun. And the cycle goes on. We need to break it.

A report on math education fuels the debate about the Singapore model. What is it--and would it work here?

Adults raised on the drill-and-kill math of the past, "fun" might not be a word they link to long division or algebra. But school officials want to ensure they teach math that's relevant to the world.