From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

Grades offer a snapshot of performance, but they rarely capture the full picture of a student’s understanding. Hidden gaps, ...

We know there are individual differences in math ability, even at a young age, but what basic cognitive tools lay the foundation for whether we are good with numbers? And specifically, what basic ...

For many elementary teachers, fractions have traditionally sprung to mind lessons involving pizzas, pies, and chocolate bars, among other varieties of “wholes” that can be shared. But in what many ...

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Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages is a useful problem-solving skill. The data can be more easily ordered by size when written in the same format. Calculations often give a decimal ...

Future teachers are likely to teach as they were taught—which can be problematic, researchers wrote in a recent study, “because most teachers experienced school mathematics as a set of disconnected ...

The disruptions to children’s schooling over the past two years have caused millions of American parents to come to an unexpected revelation: They are not as good at math as they had hoped. Nothing ...

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Join Ms. Askew for a Mystery Math Mistake. Can you find her division mistake? D.C is going to help us understand how to decompose fractions to make a whole number! Math Mights is available to stream ...