CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A good estimate of a child’s attention span is a couple of minutes for every year of age, Kent State’s Adonia Porto said. So, for example, for a one-year old, it would be two ...

Mathematics is often thought of as a subject that a student either understands or doesn't, with little in between. In reality, mathematics encompasses a wide variety of skills and concepts. Although ...

The Nation’s Report Card makes one thing painfully clear: American kids are failing in math, and the education system has been failing them for decades. New research from National Center for Education ...

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 ...

Math achievement scores have dropped, but some school boards are finding a teaching formula for student success ...

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 ...

The province of Manitoba is introducing a new "back to basics" mathematics curriculum this fall for kindergarten to eighth-grade students. Apparently, there are too many young adults unable to make ...