A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...

In Boston public schools, 3, 4 and 5-year-olds are getting their first introduction to math. Before they walk through the kindergarten door, the “Building Blocks” curriculum is designed to encourage ...

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so.

Louis Benezet carried out audacious research. He asked the principals of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire to drop math from the early grades. No teaching of arithmetic. No adding, subtracting, ...