Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means table top games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for ...

Veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered that math can be taught in an engaging way through the ancient game of mahjong, ...

Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

Mathbots haven’t done much for K-12 math instruction. Can more sophisticated uses of AI succeed in turning around American ...

It’s a common scenario in many households: A child’s struggle with their math homework quickly becomes a frustration for their parents, too. A child wrestles with a problem. His mom, trying to help, ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

A nontraditional teaching strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow classmates.

When you’re solving a challenging math problem, you know your brain is working hard. But what, exactly, is going on in there? Despite decades of research into math teaching and learning, there is ...

Jody Nolf is an associate language and literacy specialist at Vista Higher Learning. For more than 20 years, she taught English and reading to middle and high school students. Six years ago, she ...