Students in some local elementary schools are learning a completely different way of doing multiplication. It’s a technique that many parents can’t understand. It’s called lattice multiplication. The ...

John Napier was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who usually gets the credit for inventing logarithms. But his contributions to simplifying mathematics and building shorthand ...

My colleague Catie O'Toole has a story in today's Post-Standard about Everyday Math -- a new way schools are teaching kids mathematics. Actually, it's not quite new. It's been around for 25 years, but ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 74, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 117-142 (26 pages) In order to give insights into cross-national differences in schooling, this study analyzed the development of ...