Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

“For some, common core is creating common confusion,” said education correspondent Rehema Ellis on a recent NBC News segment. The crux of the news piece was that parents are struggling to help their ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

FORT LEE — For 10 seconds, a series of 50 random three-digit numbers flashed on the screen. After another second, abacus master Jeonghee Lee announced she'd finished the mental addition, correctly ...

The City of Windsor may have a mathematics whiz in its midst and mental math is his game. Shivam Patel, 8, recently finished as the third runner up in his age category in a national mental math ...

Converting between kilometres and miles doesn't have to be a mathematical nightmare. Whether you're preparing for competitive exams, trying to understand American movies and TV shows, or working on ...