That conclusion doesn’t add up, at least for college students, according to a study in the June Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. On the contrary, people’s intrusive worries about math ...

Here’s a disturbing equation: Anxiety about doing math, plus female elementary school teachers, equals a drag on math achievement for some first- and second-grade girls. Female teachers’ discomfort ...

Rita Bennett understands that teaching math to her second graders these days adds up to a whole lot more than 2 + 2 = 4. On one recent morning she presented the following problem to her Simi Valley, ...

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as, ...

Math is currently being taught in a way most people over the age of 30 may not understand. It doesn’t take anything more than a multi-step subtraction problem to result in a wide spectrum of reactions ...

To the editor: Stanford professor Jo Boaler is hopeful about new approaches to teaching math, and I am hopeful too. In school, I encountered the wall of indifference in learning math that Boaler talks ...

My father was a blue-collar man from his head to the tips of his work boots. He’d come home when I was in kindergarten, covered in soot, hair wild, grinning. Fridays brought big grins. Fridays meant ...