Here’s a little math problem: In 2005, just 45% of the fifth-graders at Ramona Elementary School in Hollywood scored at grade level on a standardized state test. In 2006, that figure rose to 76%. What ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

What is that high-performing Asian nations get right, when it comes to math teaching? A pair of researchers have explored that question in a new study, which examines the standards of Singapore, Hong ...

Editor’s Note: When her school showed declining math scores, Andi Webb, math coach at Alderman Road Elementary School in Fayetteville, NC, decided to implement Singapore math strategies to help ...

PEAPACK-GLADSTONE — There was little rest and relaxation during Peggy Campbell-Rush's two-week sojourn in Singapore and Indonesia. No, this was a different type of R&R, as Campbell-Rush, an educator ...

“For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.” Socked away between Malaysia and Indonesia in Southeast Asia is the island nation of Singapore, ...