From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

Elementary students in some schools are using math to try to solve real problems, helping them see its practical applications.

A student completes the 19-step long division problem correctly, then adds 5 and 4 and gets 8. Messy handwriting admittedly doesn’t help. A lot of math amounts to organizing information well.

New York City public schools will launch a division to better serve the city’s growing populations of English learners and students with disabilities and impose standardization on how math is… ...