Why do some students become ever better at mathematics, while others plateau? Many people may think that mathematics is ...

Students from families with little interest in math benefit more from a school intervention program that aims at increasing math motivation than do students whose parents regard math as important. A ...

How do children learn math? It’s shaped by what they know as well as their motivation and engagement. Historically, research on children’s math learning has been focused on parents’ cognitive ...

One of the responsibilities of this blog is to troll for interesting or useful research articles about student motivation. This morning, I found one while trolling on the American Educational Research ...

Keeping students motivated and engaged in math is a challenge—but the right strategies can make all the difference. This webinar, designed for teachers and education leaders, will explore ...

Why do some students keep getting better at math while others seem to hit a wall early on? Many people think that doing well ...

'You're so smart!' -- This encouraging response may actually do more harm than good to children's math performance, according to a new study. The study found that encouraging children with responses ...

We typically think of math anxiety as universally bad for math learning, but a team of scholars have now discovered that the relationship between math anxiety and learning is much more complex. Based ...