For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. The kids had fun, but the ...

Reagan Elementary third grader Ariana Borra has earned recognition as a National Math Star. (Courtesy Photo) It seems appropriate that a Reagan Elementary All-Star — that is the school’s nickname and ...

Elementary math teacher Margie Howells teaches a fifth grade class at Wheeling Country Day School in Wheeling, W.Va., on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. Howells said that she turned to the science of math ...

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

If your child struggles with math, Alabama education leaders say improving those skills may require changing not only what happens in ...

Use these Pi Day lesson plans, problem sets, and articles to get students in grades 4 through 6 learning about STEM. Lessons and projects are aligned to NGSS and Common Core Math standards. These ...

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 ...

Clifford Street Elementary Math & Technology Magnet is a public school located in Los Angeles, CA, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Clifford Street Elementary Math & ...

Are you a “math person”? It’s a question that gets settled at an early age: Most students have made up their mind about whether they identify as a math person by the time they’re in middle school, ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Recent state test results revealed that many Alabama elementary school students need help with math skills. Fewer than half of third through fifth graders were proficient in math. This trend isn’t new ...

A fifth-grade student in Ellanise Hines’ class works on calculating the volume of a prism. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...