When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Each month, Dayton Daily News reporter Eileen McClory highlights local ideas that improve outcomes for students and teachers in the Dayton area. Last year, the proficiency rate in ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

Ontario’s math test results in recent years are adding up to be a real embarrassment for the province. The latest test results show half of Grade 6 students and 42 per cent of Grade 9 students in ...

An effort to portray traditional styles of teaching math as being non-inclusive is gaining steam, in part courtesy of the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft—as is mockery of the effort. The latest ...

\xa0By Buertey Francis BORYOR\xa0Mathematics teachers have been urged to adopt digital tools and modern teaching strategies to improve classroom learning and prepare students for a technology-driven ...