Test scores, school report cards and Facebook posts complaining about homework problems often drive critiques of how math is taught in schools. Amid the debates, it has become increasingly clear that ...

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Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. This is what Assistant Professor Yemimah King ...

I remember watching my 3-year-old niece, Avi, try to organize her toy cars. She wasn't counting them yet, but she would say, “This one goes near the red one,” and “I want more cars here!” At the time, ...

In his March 2021 Netflix special, comedian Nate Bargatze complains about having to teach his kids a confusing “new math” based on standards known as the Common Core. “The goal of Common Core is to ...

Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think. This is what Assistant Professor Yemimah King discovered in her research on how parents' word usage is related ...