In Erin Bryan’s 5th grade math classroom, TGIF takes on a whole new meaning. Fridays don’t just herald the coming weekend. They’re also game days. “They all come in here on Fridays pumped,” said Bryan ...

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. At least, he wants them to feel that way occasionally and temporarily. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still ...

A new, free learning tool coming out of Indiana University Bloomington aims to make static math problems easier for students to solve. IU researchers formed the education technology startup Graspable ...

Timothy Legowski, Alivia Hathaway and Lillian Martel fish for numbers from a tub of paper fish using makeshift fishing rods at a recent Math and Literacy Night at East Meadow School in Granby. After ...

We fear it and loathe it; we admire but are also suspicious of those who are good at it; we place it in such high esteem that we make children study (or pretend to study) it almost every day of every ...