Traditional math education often fails to instill a love for mathematics and habits of mathematical thinking in its pupils.

Elementary teachers who changed their perceptions about math — such as who’s good at it and why it’s useful — saw their students’ math scores rise significantly, according to a new study ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level?

Researchers have developed a new approach that uses math to determine the best ways to group individuals to maximize learning. Their work has broad implications in education, as well as in ...

Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World To tell truth from fiction, start with quantitative thinking, argues the mathematician Rebecca Goldin. MAX HIRSHFELD/QUANTA MAGAZINE ...

Researchers suggest that dividing the average daily heart rate by the number of daily steps from wearables can offer insights into heart health. This Daily Heart Rate Per Step metric correlates ...

Here are some simple ways to get your kids to sharpen their math skills while still having fun this summer.

Teachers in training can be taught to teach their students to tackle problems like mathematicians and scientists. But will they stick with that approach once they get their own class?

The kids learn math tricks and play games, and they are eager to do math. So there are these two different ways of teaching math: one with a big emphasis on showing your work — demonstrating you ...

She also shows how speed and right answers are not always the best ways to gauge a student’s math ability. Taking time to puzzle over a math problem, or experimenting with various answers, should not ...