The National Assessment of Educational Progress measures student performance in math and reading. See how the 50 states shape up.

Here's how you can help your 11th grader with math outside of the classroom. You might not be able to help your child with the more difficult elements of their math homework, but by asking to see ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

We teach obsolete rote math that adults don’t use, while missing entirely the math that defines our lives.   Let’s start with ...

Want to help your 11th-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your student will be learning in the classroom. For high school students, math skills and understandings are organized not by ...

In integrated math courses like the one taught at Chapman High School, students typically learn a blend of algebra and geometry concepts in the same class, rather than separately. Credit: Doug Barrett ...