Schools could improve students' sluggish math scores by hammering home the basics, such as addition and multiplication, and then increasing the focus on fractions and geometry, a presidential panel ...

Discovery math has been dealt another blow, with Ontario's Education Minister departing from her province's curriculum guidelines and declaring that she expects school children to have a more solid ...

Last year in third grade, we thought our son, Jared, learned his times tables. Now in fourth grade, he's struggling in math. His teacher says he hasn't developed "automaticity" and suggests drilling ...

The Alberta government has bent to pressure from parents for curriculum changes and will require students to memorize their multiplication tables starting this fall, dealing a setback to the ...

New free math workshops at University of Prince Edward Island will help people wanting to learn about or brush up on the basics. The sessions deal with some of the reoccurring problems often faced by ...

The process of discovery worked so well for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they explored the Pacific Northwest that they and the world never forgot the lessons they learned. But even Lewis and ...