CONCORD, N.H. (CBS/AP) — Senators have passed a bill requiring public schools to continue teaching cursive and multiplication tables. The bill is aimed at making sure schools maintain those skills as ...

This is regarding the May 5 Generation Z(eal) column “Young Americans are bad at math and it’s a growing problem.” In 1999, my wife and I were at our fifth grade child’s parent-teacher conference at a ...

Your youngster can learn that multiplication is actually just a method of repeatedly adding multiple groups of the same number by using objects like blocks and small toys.

“Come see this work,” she said with a huge smile on her face. I traveled down the hallway to the 3rd grade teacher’s classroom where she had a stack of student artwork ready for me to view. “I am just ...

John Bald is a former Ofsted inspector and has written two books on the history of writing and spelling. He is Chairman of the Conservative Education Society. We like to think that information travels ...

Some kids are computer kids, and some aren’t. I hear about the latter and I find it hard to believe. In this house, the concept is extraordinarily foreign. Our own 8-year-old is regulated by a timer ...

Primary schools which fail to teach times tables by heart are condemning children to a lifetime struggling with numbers, inspectors have warned. A study published by Ofsted, the schools watchdog, says ...

Discovery math has been dealt another blow, with Ontario's Education Minister departing from her province's curriculum guidelines and declaring that she expects school children to have a more solid ...

While many Edmonton elementary students will be be taking time off from school work this summer, Jacquelyn Vandenborne’s daughter, Anneke Oosterhuis, will be spending her morning learning ...