For many parents, the biggest challenge they face helping their child with high school math is that the material is too difficult for them to easily help out. Familiarize yourself with the range of ...

Summer vacation is here, and while fun is on the agenda, keeping up with academic skills may not be. This means many students return to school in the fall at a slightly lower academic level than they ...

Here's how you can help your preschooler master the basics of math outside of the classroom. Ask your child to compare different groups of items, such as carrot sticks and apple slices, and to tell ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

It’s hard to quantify exactly how many parents have ever wrung their hands in frustration over a child’s math homework. But, the number is probably pretty high. Using math terms, it’s likely greater ...

A key instructional shift called for by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics is the dual emphasis on conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. NCTM draws a connection between these ...

It's been more than two decades since Omama Kjerstin Gabrielson had to solve for x and y. When her sixth-grade daughter came home with a pile of math problems to solve, Gabrielson dusted off those old ...

This guide was written with the calculus student in mind, though the tips are applicable to many undergraduate math classes. In the type of course this guide addresses, you will be successful if and ...

Math teachers have had a new problem to solve this school year: How do you foster engagement and understanding among students when you’re often not in the room with them? “As if mathematics weren’t ...

Encourage your third-grader to talk about the math concepts that they are learning at school. Don’t just ask, “How was math today?” Instead, ask them to tell you about something your child learned in ...