Students are better able to engage with and solve complex problems when they view themselves as capable mathematicians.

The May 23 article, “Three Ways to Build Student Confidence in Math,” resonated deeply with my research on psychological safety and feedback in math classrooms. The article highlights formative ...

Families might be wondering why their child's math classroom looks so different from what they remember in school. Why aren't teachers putting students on the spot and getting them to prove that they ...

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ready or not. Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Americans are largely unsatisfied with the way math is taught across the nation's classrooms, according to a new national survey ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

The 74 reports Black students are historically excluded from quality math, leading to dire academic and professional outcomes, with only 6% in AP math classes.