Elementary teachers can foster the critical thinking skills that help students develop independence in working through math ...

If North Carolina high school student Katie Denton struggles with her algebra homework, she knows she’s not on her own. Denton can use her school-issued smartphone to send instant messages to her ...

One of the challenges to getting students engaged in math is the perception that it’s a subject where you sit at a desk and do 30 math problems alone. There are a number of ways to make math more ...

Math is having a moment. Reading instruction was all the rage a few years ago when Wisconsin, along with most states across the nation, passed laws mandating schools adopt an evidence-based reading ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored. A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. His students had watched the ...

“How do I write an equation for exponential decay?” one of my students asked me recently. “I’m trying to predict when Indian elephants will become critically endangered.” I’m a high school math ...

After a year of distance learning, the range of skill levels in math class is very wide, with some students still learning concepts from several grades behind. That means teachers have to get creative ...

It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...

A few short years ago, asking AI to add two four-digit numbers together for a third-grade math assignment would have been a ...