The architects of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics explicitly aimed to sacrifice breadth for depth, but that proposition has raised questions about whether assessments can be developed ...

Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less ...

Student data and assessment company Otus has partnered with Exemplars, a provider of standards-based performance tasks in math, science, and writing, to integrate the latter's math assessment data ...

New research indicates that working memory is a key component of math anxiety. These findings suggest that worrying about a situation (such as solving an arithmetic problem in front of a group of ...

“I don’t care about math,” a ninth grade student at my school wrote in her “math-o-graphy” on the first day of class. This kind of apathy is a problem for many students and perhaps an even greater ...

Imagine you are sitting in the back of a classroom, daydreaming about the weekend. Then, out of nowhere, the teacher calls upon you to come to the front the room and solve a math problem. In front of ...