CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A good estimate of a child’s attention span is a couple of minutes for every year of age, Kent State’s Adonia Porto said. So, for example, for a one-year old, it would be two ...

"Down and Dirty: A How to Math Book" is a solid primer for anyone needing to brush-up on the fundamentals of mathematics. Former educator and Grand Junction author Phyllis Hunsinger walks readers ...

Mathematics is often thought of as a subject that a student either understands or doesn't, with little in between. In reality, mathematics encompasses a wide variety of skills and concepts. Although ...

Carol Atkinson holds a stopwatch as the second-graders in her room fish pencils from their desks, a worksheet of 25 addition problems in front of them. “Ready, set, start,” Atkinson says, and they’re ...

The Nation’s Report Card makes one thing painfully clear: American kids are failing in math, and the education system has been failing them for decades. New research from National Center for Education ...

Re “Dismal student test scores deserve boos, not cheers” (Oct. 17): I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many students had ...

Another year, another nationwide education disaster laid out in the scores issued by the nation’s report card. Math scores are down, reading scores are down, every year worse than the last, as ...

The province of Manitoba is introducing a new "back to basics" mathematics curriculum this fall for kindergarten to eighth-grade students. Apparently, there are too many young adults unable to make ...

Some disturbing statements have been made recently about Ontario’s student math achievement and curriculum. Premier Doug Ford told the media that “Grade 6 students are the lowest math scores in the ...