Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Students who can't understand instructions for math problems face unnecessary barriers to achievement. Students who don’t read well or lack crucial vocabulary often face unnecessary obstacles—not just ...

Interested in helping your child with math homework? You might need a math-English dictionary. There’s not a lot of “borrowing” in subtraction these days. Instead there’s “regrouping” or “decomposing.

Now a look at how required math classes may factor into the academic success or failure of high school and college students. Hari Sreenivasan has the story as part of our weekly education series, ...

FLIP IT AND REVERSE IT: Hat tip to Richard Byrne for this find: Math Vocabulary Cards is a free iPad app for elementary students that blends a simple online index card design with math vocabulary ...