Elementary school students who learn to calculate using a mental abacus tend to perform better on math tests than their peers ...

Throughout Tiffany Trevenen’s more than 30-year career in Moffat County schools in Craig, Colo., she has seen students experience the same math struggles again and again. “It was very apparent in ...

Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework. That’s starting to change, ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of Minnesota’s top-performing schools, Math and Science Academy in Woodbury, currently serves 720 students and plans to double ...

Most fourth graders in this country are not proficient in math. That was true for one rural Wisconsin elementary school until it changed the way it taught the subject. Most of the nation's fourth ...

Recent state test results revealed that many Alabama elementary school students need help with math skills. Fewer than half of third through fifth graders were proficient in math. This trend isn’t new ...