The common-core math standards require that students learn the standard algorithm for multi-digit adding and subtracting—you know, the process in which you line the numbers up vertically to add or ...

With the implementation of the new Common Core standards, parents across the country will notice a few changes in their kids' math homework. To big changes, now, in the classroom. Most states have ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

You might also remember the photo of a check that went viral not that long ago — a man filled out a check to his son’s school by attempting to write the check amount in ten frames. There have been ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Math can’t catch a break. These days, people on both ends of the political spectrum are lining up to deride the ...