My son came home from school one day a few months ago asking whether he could play yet another new video game a friend had told him about. This happens a couple of times a month—and often results in ...

With summer almost over, it's time to fire up your kids' brain cells. One way to ease them into the rigors of school is to introduce some fun math apps. These three apps score high on kid-appeal while ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. I hated math as a child, so my parents bought me a computer game to help me enjoy math. It was called Super Solvers: Outnumbered! This game took me ...

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When students reach high school math, play typically disappears from the curriculum. But Kathy Sun is discovering new ways to bring play into high school math. A student’s math identity is usually ...

Four-year-old Danny calls out excitedly to a classmate passing by. “Estoy ganando,” he says in Spanish. “I’m winning!” Facing no actual opponents, the boy eagerly strings colored beads onto a pipe ...

The latest NAEP high school transcript study has some nice news and some not-so-nice news, but much of it is unsurprising. For the full-fledged story, see the one my colleague Caralee Adams wrote. You ...