A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

If good math policies are the ingredients, qualified math teachers are the chefs serving students an opportunity to compete ...

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...

Mattea Thomas, a sixth-grade math teacher at Allapattah Flats K-8 in Port St. Lucie, has been named Teacher of the Month for ...

I once asked a colleague if he’d read a particular book. “Read it?” he replied incredulously. “I haven’t even taught it!” A former college English professor, he came by the joke honestly. The first ...

The 74 reports that schools excelling in math also tend to excel in reading, indicating a strong correlation between subject ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Pasco High School bilingual math teacher Gabriela Whitemarsh stands in front of Seattle artist Steve Gardner’s “Where Will You Go?” mural on campus. The 2010 piece depicts two people in a boat and ...

Were you a kid who struggled in math class? If so, vivid recollections of poring over algebra homework trying to understand the inscrutable equations are probably core memories from your school years.

A total of 177 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers, as well as 27 counselors, were selected for the state’s Master Teacher and Master Counselor ...