In a contentious 3-2 vote, the Palo Alto school board early Wednesday voted to adopt the Everyday Mathematics textbook series for use this fall in all K-5 classrooms. After five hours of debate, board ...

On Doug Noon’s Borderland blog, high school teacher Karl Fisch defends the use of conceptually-oriented math programs like Everyday Math in elementary schools. In doing so, he makes a distinction ...

Things that seem to fluctuate randomly—the stock market, the strength of your tennis game—can be the most frustrating to track or predict. Averaging can help. Its relatively high pitch and sudden ...

THE ISSUE: Whether new methods of teaching math provide sufficient education. Congratulations to The Post for running Michelle Malkin’s “Fuzzy Math Isn’t Cuddly” (PostOpinion, Nov. 28). It is a ...

Reinforcing basic math concepts in everyday situations will help your child begin to see that math is indeed everywhere. The next time you and your child are taking a walk, you can find ways to ...

After devoting an entire school year to testing out new math materials at Palo Alto's elementary schools and selecting three curricula to recommend to the Board of Education, a school district ...

Oak Lawn dad Jay Lurquin enjoys the things he does with his son Matthew—scouts, football, cooking—but when it comes to homework, it was anything but enjoyable. Matthew, a fourth-grader, struggles with ...