Many students struggle with math, and one big reason why is their feelings toward the subject. Students often lack confidence in their math abilities, educators say, making them less willing to ...

Mindfulness is making its way into math classrooms, helping students reduce anxiety, focus better, and even improve test ...

Math can be a difficult subject for students to master—and for teachers to teach. Concepts build on each other, so any gaps in knowledge compound over time. Plus, the subject can be rife with fraught ...

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Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

As longtime college math faculty in San Diego County, we were taken aback by the news about first-year students struggling with middle school math at UC San Diego. The idea that students might score ...