Public school students in North Carolina would have to be taught cursive handwriting and be required to memorize multiplication tables under a bill that passed the House Education Committee Tuesday ...

Rick, I thought your recent interview with Andrew Coulson of ST Math was a fascinating look at how educational products — particularly those that address math — are promoted. In the interview, Coulson ...

Could it be that the nation's large fraction of students lacking math proficiency is caused by significant numbers of students not having their multiplication tables memorized? In a California K-12 ...

Dr. Mel Levine: What's hard about math? Dmitri: Multiplication and division and just those kind of things, like really big numbers on a page. It just take-takes me days to figure it out. [cut to Dr.

We have all heard the old saying, "Sleep on it," when trying to solve a problem or making an important decision. There might be some scientific truth to that advice, especially when it comes to ...

In a decision that underscores long-standing rifts over how to teach mathematics, Texas officials have rejected one of the most widely used elementary textbooks in the country in that subject after ...