Hite Elementary is offering Chinese as its world language focus this year. Hite Elementary administrators hope Chinese classes will improve math performance. Last year the school implemented the ...

Via Prufrock (subscribe for free!), here’s a story about how a group of Chinese math and science teachers came into a British school for four weeks, and taught the kids there the Chinese way: 12 hours ...

Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau says China trails the pack in his field. He's tapping money and power to change that. Americans suffer from an inferiority complex when it comes to math. They see ...

Teachers today face a conundrum: they lack the hours needed to help students master requisite proficiencies. This burden is amplified for those teaching language immersion classes. Some split their ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. As the WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math ...

China’s approach to teaching math and science differs sharply from that of the United States, concludes a report that details the Asian nation’s use of strong national standards, a logical progression ...

Fifth-graders in China's Shunqing district were recently asked to answer this question: “If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship's captain?” The apparently unsolvable ...

Colloquy: Join a live, online discussion with David C. Geary, a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri at Columbia, about research suggesting that there are innate differences between ...

Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau says China trails the pack in his field. He's tapping money and power to change that. It was 1993 and China was bidding for the 2000 Olympics. with the country ...