A nontraditional math instruction strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow ...

In “ Math Trauma Is Real. Here’s How You Can Prevent It ,” Vaughn argued that these humiliations make for more than just the ...

Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

It’s something that educators hear from students in classes, children express to caregivers as they start homework and even adults say to each other when it’s time to calculate the tip for lunch.

Outdoor activities provide ample opportunities for math learning without any cost. Go on a nature walk where you ask your ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

Using visual and meaningful context aligned to how the brain learns can make math more understandable and engaging for all ...

As national math scores continue to drop, many parents are left wondering how to ignite a spark for math in their kids.

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

When most people picture math lessons, they imagine pencils, paper and desks, not sugar-water rewards and tiny mazes. But one group of cognitive scientists isn’t teaching arithmetic or calculus to ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Sarah Powell, an ...