I’ll admit it: I was skeptical of how “creative-thinking” strategies in math would go over with my 4th grade enrichment students. I see these students just once a week in pull-out groups, so every ...

Beautiful Asian student writing on blackboard with chalk in classroom. I love math, but I know that I’m unusual. Math anxiety is a rampant problem across the country. Researchers now know that when ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.