It’s easy for kids to see math as an isolated activity. They might think of math as just counting, or adding, or something they do for 40 minutes a day at school. If we want kids to think like ...

He was supposed to be working on long-form multiplication problems—457 x 214, 378 x 29, 112 x 978—and my son kept asking me to check his answers. But it had been so long since I’d written out any math ...

Parents teach young children to love books by reading to them, often at bedtime. Laura and John Overdeck love math, so they started giving their kids a word problem to solve each night before tucking ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Lifetime Products makes more folding tables than any other company in the world. Since this is the season when its tables are most likely to be unfolded, it took a survey recently to find out what we ...

For the city’s stressed-out third-graders, one math exam plus one reading exam equals – done! Some 80,000 8-year-olds survived their high-stakes math exam yesterday after sweating through the reading ...