The field of math education is cluttered with bad and untested ideas. The Gates Foundation is spending more than a billion dollars to try to find a way forward.

Early math abilities also correlate with broader cognitive skills, as kids with stronger math skills in preschool tend to show better performance in reading, attention control and executive function. ...

Commentary: Teaching math to children the same old way won’t get us out of this mess Sat., Sept. 23, ... My early approach to teaching math was a bit like teaching someone to shoot free throws.

Math lessons like this, disguised as a fun activity playing with colorful bears, should be a regular part of preschool, math experts say, especially as older students across the U.S. struggle with ...

2025 goal for parents: Teaching kids kindness instead of being math-letes Many parents are aware of the eroding mental health of our youth but still focus on achievement, test fear their kids fall ...

A few years after the state began to push schools to adopt a new, systematic way to teach kids how to read, Louisiana education officials want to try a similar “back-to-basics" approach to math ...

New math isn't actually new. A version of it can be traced to the 1950s after the Soviets launched Sputnik and American lawmakers panicked that we weren't teaching enough math and science.

Statewide, though, kids are still behind where they were in the 2018-2019 school year. In 2018-2019, about 65% of kids were proficient in reading, while in 2023-2024, about 61% of all students ...

Early math abilities also correlate with broader cognitive skills, as kids with stronger math skills in preschool tend to show better performance in reading, attention control and executive function.