Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle each ...

Math is not everyone's favorite subject—it can be frustrating and tedious when equations seem to come from thin air and concepts lack proper context. A great solution to this problem would be a class ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of learning, research, and technology. It’s often said that the best teachers don’t teach their ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Visit a class in Val Verde Unified where teachers are helping students find new ways to learn math. Visit a class in Val Verde Unified where teachers are helping students find new ways to learn math.

Isabel Becerra is the sheltered-instruction facilitator for the multilingual programs department in the Garland ISD in Texas. She was born in Bolivia and has been an educator since 1992. She is a ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...