We found two approaches to solving this problem. Caroline Ebby teaches aspiring math teachers at the University of Pennsylvania. She said the issue is that, in the U.S. people learn math as a set of ...

In this lesson, students learn to find the fraction of a set. In this lesson, Ms. Brewer will teach 3rd grade math students to find the fraction of a set. / Carrie Brewer, East Saint Louis School ...

Ensuring that elementary students understand the Five Strands of Math Proficiency can help them build confidence in their ...

Fraction Number LinesWe're gonna put our tick mark right in the middle, and we're gonna label it two, because we have two equal parts, and it's in the halfway point in between zero and one.

It’s always fun to test our knowledge with questions from our school days. Sure, we’ve grown up and learned a lot since then, ...

A school year unlike any other is coming to a close, but one thing remains the same: We’re still tussling, in the same old ways, over how math should be taught. More data science, less stuffy ...

I tutored Lisa once a week for three years. In grade nine, she transferred out of the remedial stream in math, and in her second term she skipped a year and enrolled in grade 10 math.

Synergies aside, the expansion puts Duolingo squarely into competition with math-focused edtech companies such as Khan Academy, Brilliant.org, Photomath, Numerade and the recently acquired Symbolab.

While you won't find an apology in math books these days, you will find a curriculum — word problems and all — not that different from the lessons that filled textbooks 500 years ago.