Mathematical understanding should be a goal for every student and something they feel capable of achieving. But translating ...

Students should not be left to struggle with routine math needed to manage their finances, bake a cake or do a home repair.

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

The proposed new math standards would emphasize teaching students math skills through real-life problem-solving, thought to ...

The response, at least in its ideal form, was not to narrow literacy instruction but to strengthen it. Schools restored ...

Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...