With the right lesson plan, teachers can turn struggling students into budding mathematicians. The secret is carefully guiding their adventure in numbers I still vividly remember the day, 14 years ago ...

Many people believe that only a minority of children are born with mathematical talent, while the rest simply do not have the ability to succeed at a high level. Recent discoveries in cognitive ...

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With the return to school comes a return to students sitting at their desks for hours every day—and teachers’ subsequent challenge of managing those fidgeting students. There has been considerable ...

The Jump Math program, which is available for free online, is getting rave reviews from teachers and researchers. John Mighton, the Toronto mathematician and award-winning playwright who created the ...

John Mighton is a mathematician, author and founder of Jump Math. His latest book is All Things Being Equal: Why Math is the Key to a Better World. In a keynote address at the Calgary City Teachers’ ...

Students at Myersville Elementary School participated in a Math Kangaroo exercise on March 15. There were 77 students in first-through-fifth grades registered, said Stacey McGiffin, a Myersville ...