It’s something that educators hear from students in classes, children express to caregivers as they start homework and even adults say to each other when it’s time to calculate the tip for lunch.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Become the math teacher your future students need. There’s a difference between learning a subject and learning to teach it. You’ll want to do both to be the kind of teacher that inspires their ...

A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...

Frances E. Anderson receives funding from the Nebraska Math Omaha Noyce Partnership, authorized under the National Science Foundation (NSF). Funding does not directly support the work of this article ...

When you walk into Monique Jackson's 3rd-grade classroom at Stevens Park Elementary, you're surrounded by soft lighting, positive affirmations, and math equations. "Tell me why y'all chose 8," Jackson ...

Many parents relish reliving moments from our childhoods through our children, and doing homework with them is its own kind of madeleine. For Steve Levitt of “Freakonomics” fame — who is, in his own ...

To the editor: Math classes should be eliminated and replaced by another recess period. In other words, if mathematics or arithmetic was taught as puzzles to be explored and as a fun activity instead ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the biggest mistakes made in math instruction and what should teachers do instead? We all make mistakes, and this series will explore which ones might be ...

December 4, 2025 - A new literacy intervention program is being rolled out in San Diego, Alameda, San Mateo and Riverside counties, to help teenagers in juvenile detention grasp the basics of reading.

The new question-of-the-week is: What are specific ways educators can make teaching math more culturally responsive? Part One ‘s guest contributors were Chiquita Jenkins, Autumn Kelley, James Ewing, ...