I heard one of my favorite phrases the other day in class. Two young women raised their hands during a partner task and blurted in frustration (and in unison): “This answer just doesn’t make any sense ...

Greg Duncan before delivering the keynote address at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s forum on early math. Credit: Lillian Mongeau, EdSource Today A study showing that early math skills are ...

Having a poor "gut sense" of numbers can lead to a mathematical learning disability and difficulty in achieving basic math proficiency. This inaccurate number sense is just one cause of math learning ...

In discussions of progressive and constructivist teaching practices, math is often the odd subject out. Teachers and schools that are capable of creating real-world, contextualized, project-based ...

A baby's sense of numbers at the age of 6 months predicts how good that child will be at math at the age of 3, new research finds. In the study, in which researchers looked at infants' "primitive ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...