In an effort to improve math achievement district-wide, all elementary students in the Chichester School District get an extra 30-minute daily dose of math.

At Bonillas Elementary Basic Curriculum Magnet School, 37% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 37% scored at or above that level for reading.

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the ...

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also ...

Below, Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg, the Founders of the online math tutoring program Wonder Math, lay out why grades 2nd-5th are when every child's foundation in math is - or isn't - built.

Basic math skills linked to PSAT math success Date: January 4, 2013 Source: University of Western Ontario Summary: New research provides brain imaging evidence that students well-versed in very ...

Ann Kajander, Elementary Mathematics Teacher Preparation in an Era of Reform: The Development and Assessment of Mathematics for Teaching, Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de ...

What should be done? My impulse is to say that we should raise the math requirements for elementary education majors beyond basic algebra and geometry and weed out some of the math-phobes.