One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from which ...

Any of us who have ever been in a math classroom know that too many kids lack fundamental arithmetic skills. It is extraordinarily difficult to teach students more advanced skills when their ability ...

Can a video game make your kid smarter? Can a video game teach your kid math? Jean-Baptiste Huynh’s Dragonbox app “tricks” kids into thinking algebra is fun. Or maybe algebra is fun and Dragonbox is ...