Schools could improve students' sluggish math scores by hammering home the basics, such as addition and multiplication, and then increasing the focus on fractions and geometry, a presidential panel ...

Carol Atkinson holds a stopwatch as the second-graders in her room fish pencils from their desks, a worksheet of 25 addition problems in front of them. “Ready, set, start,” Atkinson says, and they’re ...

Re “Dismal student test scores deserve boos, not cheers” (Oct. 17): I taught sixth-grade math for 24 years and found that the biggest impediment to teaching at that level was that so many students had ...

Ann Kajander receives funding from the Ministry of Education Mathematics Knowledge Network. Jennifer Holm does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

More than 50 professors and teachers have now signed a petition calling for a return to the conventional teaching of arithmetic, with a focus on students learning, practicing and mastering the basics ...

The Alberta government has bent to pressure from parents for curriculum changes and will require students to memorize their multiplication tables starting this fall, dealing a setback to the ...

Knowledge Adventure has announced the release of Math Blaster: Master the Basics for Mac OS X and Windows Vista. The software is available for purchase at Apple Stores and costs $29.99. Designed for ...