Rita Bennett understands that teaching math to her second graders these days adds up to a whole lot more than 2 + 2 = 4. On one recent morning she presented the following problem to her Simi Valley, ...

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as, ...

Math is currently being taught in a way most people over the age of 30 may not understand. It doesn’t take anything more than a multi-step subtraction problem to result in a wide spectrum of reactions ...