Summer weekdays start with a reading and math exercise at the Killeen household in the Bellevue School District. Kira, 8, and Nate, 10, work through multiplication problems in a textbook filled with ...

For nearly two decades, a battle has raged over the best way to teach elementary and high school math. On one side sit fundamentalists, who prefer old-fashioned drilling and a focus on the basics. On ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Frustrated math students may have a good excuse -- some of the teaching methods meant to make math more relevant may in fact be making it harder to understand, U.S. researchers ...