A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods like timed tests.

Editor's Note: To honor math and all who use it, UDaily is re-posting a Pi Day story from 2018. March 14 is Pi Day. You’re welcome to eat pie, too, but the day is more of a celebration of math. A ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 84, No. 2, Special Issue: Alternative perspectives on learning mathematics in the early years (October 2013), pp. 183-199 (17 pages) First results of the ...

Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has ...

Math has always been a tricky subject for many of us, abstract, rigid, and often intimidating. But thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), that’s not the case anymore. AI-powered tools are ...

The 74 reports that schools excelling in math also tend to excel in reading, indicating a strong correlation between subject ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. The National Assessment for Educational Progress announced ...

Last week’s question was: What is the best advice you would give to help an educator become better at teaching math? As I mentioned in Part One of this series, I have very limited teaching experience ...

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A viral video that has put the spotlight on mathematics' role in society is drawing plenty of attention, even though many viewers are unclear of its actual message. The TikTok video posted by user ...