Previous research has indicated benefits and potential pitfalls of within-class homogeneous and heterogeneous ability grouping for elementary math learning. However, there has been scant evidence with ...

The study examined effects of homogeneous and heterogeneous achievement grouping on mathematics learning through concept and skill games. Subjects were 164 seventh graders; half played probability ...

School officials Tuesday encouraged the board of education to phase out grouping students by their math abilities in the lower grades. At Spaulding School, which has kindergarten through fourth-grade ...

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...