About a decade ago, leaders at the Kentucky Department of Education set out to develop guidelines for what quality math instruction should looked like in the state, convening educators from the ...

Numbers, blocks, puzzles, rulers. Math is all around us every day. However, recent research by Suzanne Varnell, a graduate student in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family ...

Number sense is so ingrained that many adults don’t remember being taught such early math skills, much like learning how to read. But unlike the recent wave of evidence on science-based reading ...

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...