Math has never been my strong suit. I opted out of it at every turn, particularly in college, where I enrolled in linguistics to fulfill my quantitative reasoning requirement. I even tried to overcome ...

A review of three recent studies on PsyPost proved that it’s more than just physical characteristics that parents are passing on to their kids. Instead, their academic struggles might be inherited, ...

This makes it all but impossible to think which reinforces the idea that a person just can't do math – that they are not a math person. What's more, students who succeed at tests of timed math facts ...

From more than 50 years of teaching experience, I’ve learned that elementary school teachers are typically more comfortable teaching reading. They delight in watching students become readers. They ...

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...

My mom was afraid of spiders — still is — but she was so afraid of passing along her arachnophobia that she never once told me. Instead, despite being terrified on the inside, she used to simply ...