Given: Students in Hazleton Area High School struggle in math classes. Prove: A new organization called Math Lab using honor students as teacher’s helpers and tutors would improve learning. That’s the ...

As a mathematics educator for the last seven years, I can attest that most folks believe they either are or are not “math people.” And that idea of innate math ability is very harmful to both those ...

The Department of Mathematics at Brigham Young University will celebrate the grand opening of the new location of the Math Lab with an open house on Thursday (Jan. 23) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in 159 ...

Hunched over tables, peering over one another’s shoulders, a group of 5th graders is attempting to conquer some of the most difficult—and essential—material in elementary school math. They are not ...

Dena DeYoung traces her trouble with math back to sixth grade, when a well-intended placement test showed she was smart enough to do advanced work. And for several years, DeYoung did well. But when ...

Sitting in front of a dozen second graders on a plush carpet in one of E.B. Ellington Elementary’s classrooms in the early fall, Samantha Blake tackled a tricky topic — how to read the hour and minute ...

It’s not often parents witness their children racking their brains on a mathematics problem over the summer — especially in Cynthia Brooks’ case. “It’s pretty hard to keep them engaged,” the Manheim ...