Robust skill-building and reinforcement of key mathematical concepts lie beneath the excitement of these games.

Back to School Without the Math Meltdowns It’s that time of year again- sharpened pencils, fresh notebooks, and… tears over ...

Student host Arise helps us have fun with…math! We learn characteristics of triangles by making shapes with our bodies, discover strategies to help us learn math, create a mathematician on the go, get ...

Dan Finkel runs Math for Love with his wife, Katherine Cook. They have developed two games: Tiny Polka Dot: A math-enriched card deck for 3- to 8-year-olds. “It’s really flexible,” Finkel said. You ...

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My son came home from school one day a few months ago asking whether he could play yet another new video game a friend had told him about. This happens a couple of times a month—and often results in ...

With the right lesson plan, teachers can turn struggling students into budding mathematicians. The secret is carefully guiding their adventure in numbers I still vividly remember the day, 14 years ago ...

Need to know: Teaches sixth-grade math and accelerated math at Crone Middle School in Naperville. This is her 17th year at Crone in her 19-year teaching career. Q: How do you make use of technology in ...

EVERYDAY, at least some part of every day, David Persails is thinking of methods to make advanced math easier for his students. This North Shore High School teacher doesn't mind giving up a conference ...

At the University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ‘ times zero equals zero.” Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the ...