“For kids that have a fundamental weakness in mathematics, 80 percent or 90 percent of the time that’s going to be linked to a lack of understanding numbers,” said Ben Clarke, an early math researcher ...

No matter how dire the math crisis, we can turn it around. Making math a priority in our kids’ education also will help prepare them for real life.

These fun math books can help kids get more excited about math. Plus, they have math concepts woven into the storyline.

Yet we expect 11-year-olds just to comprehend them and move on. Acting as if math isn’t challenging is problematic. It can lead to “math anxiety” that cascades down through generations.

Rather than equipping kids to compete with computers by solving the same types of problems over and over again, let's challenge them to solve new problems and become the leaders of tomorrow.

What potential employees may not realize, though, is how dependent those jobs are on strong math skills and the ability to work comfortably with numbers.

Our research shows an interactive math app boosts achievement by children in 'math anxious' families even as their parents remain, well, anxious.

Educators and parents can encourage kids to have better attitudes towards math by giving them space and time to wrestle with the math.