Please let us not give up on teaching high school students how to do advanced math. Let’s just find a better way to teach them.

In the spirit of teaching elementary-age kids in a fun way, Emerson Elementary School teachers are getting creative when it comes to explaining math concepts.

Susan Hobart asked this week’s “question-of-the-week": What strategies help math facts stick besides the old “drill the skill” and, if someone is not proficient at addition facts, can ...

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 ...

The new curriculum is the grade-level math that my Algebra I students should be doing. When given the chance, so many rise to ...

Your book, Mathematics Education For a New Era, argues that video games are the best way to teach math to middle school kids. Can you briefly explain why you feel that way? Mathematics is an activity.

Math literacy needs to be developed early, and toys and play are a great way to do it.

So, if elementary school teachers remember math as important, but not fun, they're likely to teach it as important, but not fun. And the cycle goes on. We need to break it.

Adults raised on the drill-and-kill math of the past, "fun" might not be a word they link to long division or algebra. But school officials want to ensure they teach math that's relevant to the world.