In math, children use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to solve word problems. They tackle measurement of volume, mass and time. They learn more about fractions — creating equal ...

Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...

In a talk for education journalists, William Schmidt, a researcher and education professor at Michigan State University, laid out what he sees as the four major problems with how the common-core math ...

Some say the new Common Core math standards are too easy. Others say they're too hard or too focused on ideas rather than correct answers. Whatever they are, they're in full effect in California ...

“Who would draw a picture to divide 2/3 by 3/4?” asked Marina Ratner, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

As she wraps up class, fourth-grade teacher Rosalyn Bailey walks by each table, hovers over each child and points at the math assignment. “What’s two-tenths plus four-tenths?” Bailey asks one of her ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Fifth-grader Nora Meier uses a tablet computer to record information she and a partner gathered from third-graders at Lewis Elementary. This year the Southeast Portland school is issuing a Chromebook ...