The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...

It's a shocking idea. By zapping brains in maths lessons, scientists claim to have boosted students’ abilities by a third. Participants became quicker at calculating and learned up to five times ...

Growing numbers of universities are being forced to give remedial maths lessons to students who gave up the subject at school, scientists have warned. The Royal Society of Chemistry claimed that ...

Knowing how a mathematical theory developed improves a pupil's understanding of it. This is the conclusion of Dutch researcher Iris van Gulik, who investigated how the history of mathematics can help ...

Maths strikes a bad chord in the collective memory of a generation brought up on rules, drill and exercises. Christine Morgan, deputy head of Heathfield junior school in Richmond upon Thames, who runs ...

What is that high-performing Asian nations get right, when it comes to math teaching? A pair of researchers have explored that question in a new study, which examines the standards of Singapore, Hong ...

Children do better at maths when music is a key part of their lessons, an analysis of almost 50 years of research on the topic has revealed. Children do better at maths when music is a key part of ...

Last weekend my husband and I Skyped with our son and his son, who is growing like the Dow. “Hey, Mom, check this out,” said our son as he gave his 4-year-old a simple math problem to do. We sipped ...