Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...

Struggly is a gamified online math supplement that encourages and rewards student persistence, creativity, and strategy in solving digital math puzzles. Aimed at students in grades preK-8, Struggly’s ...

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), titled ‘Beyond Basics’, was released here on Wednesday. It involved a survey by civil society organisation Pratham among rural students aged 14 to 18 ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

Picture a “traditional” math class and then a “21st-century” math class. One of the most obvious differences is probably how students are interacting: No longer silently sitting in rows of desks, ...

When a math task requires the input of multiple students, debates that support the flow of knowledge between them can happen. Why is knowledge not flowing freely from group to group despite my ...

In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie was released with the controversial voice fragment, "Math class is hard." While the toy's release met with public backlash, this underlying assumption persists, propagating ...

Faculty of Psychology, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. Mathematics is useful in helping students to understand other areas of study and to be able to think logically, ...

A few weeks ago I (Jo Boaler) was working in my Stanford office when the silence of the room was interrupted by a phone call. A mother called me to report that her 5-year-old daughter had come home ...

Numerous myths surround the use of calculators in the elementary school mathematics classroom. These myths emerge from numerous individuals; for example, from parents one might hear, “I learned math ...