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

More than one right answer, more than one right method While those tasks make sense for 5th graders, kindergartners—and even preschoolers—can learn math through problem solving, Boaler said.

The emphasis should not be on the content and the subject but on developing skills to problem solve. We should teach everybody to develop problem-solving skills.

An English teacher and a math teacher collaborating to improve practices in classroom discussion develop a problem-solving method that steers students away from seeking simple solutions and into an ...

This study was conducted to determine whether a problem-solving strategy would affect children's alternative solutions to social interaction conflicts and to assess whether this skill would generalize ...