To an outsider, this looks like an unusual lesson. Fifth-graders at Harbor View Elementary School in Newport Beach are sketching rectangles to parse a story problem involving mangoes and fruit cups.

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Nearly two decades ago, international math and science tests revealed mathematics instruction in the United States as an inch deep and a mile wide. Since then, we have grappled with how to get depth ...

For the project described in this article, I received funding from the Gauteng Education Development Trust and from the National Research Foundation. I am affiliated with a number of professional and ...

You won’t find a warning on a box of Dimetapp or Tavist that using such a medication may make it harder to solve mathematics problems. But a new study by three Youngstown State University professors ...

Seeing as Tuesday night is the deadline for filing tax returns, and seeing as data is FiveThirtyEight’s raison d’être, I was excited to find a set of statistics ...

Feeling intimidated by numbers or equations? You’re not alone. Research on mathematics anxiety — defined as the tension or fear when dealing with math — shows it can seriously block learning. A ...