As nine students cluster in a semi-circle in Gail Younie’s cozy summer school classroom at Stephensen Elementary in Southwest Portland, the baggies full of brightly-colored two-dimensional Styrofoam ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

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I remember my youthful days in high school and college, the constant struggle with math was a horrible experience. I came across this article on children who have trouble with math and it was as if ...

The Seattle school district is planning to infuse all K-12 math classes with ethnic-studies questions that encourage students to explore how math has been “appropriated” by Western culture and used in ...

Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Remember quaking at the thought of algebra? A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience looks at kids who have math ...