Students who can't understand instructions for math problems face unnecessary barriers to achievement. Students who don’t read well or lack crucial vocabulary often face unnecessary obstacles—not just ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...

Interested in helping your child with math homework? You might need a math-English dictionary. There’s not a lot of “borrowing” in subtraction these days. Instead there’s “regrouping” or “decomposing.

FLIP IT AND REVERSE IT: Hat tip to Richard Byrne for this find: Math Vocabulary Cards is a free iPad app for elementary students that blends a simple online index card design with math vocabulary ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach math? In Part One, Cindy Garcia, Danielle Ngo, Patrick Brown, and Andrea Clark shared ...