In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- The fourth-graders at Rolling Hills Elementary School are good at math, and it's not because of traditional, pencil-and-paper classroom instruction. They use an online program at www ...

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

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...