Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

LEHI, Utah — It was the last class before Thanksgiving break, and high school math teacher Sarah Gale was dishing out more than her usual lessons on data science. “I can smell it,” said one student, ...

Ethnomathematics, a teaching approach that connects math to culture, is emerging as a way to create more engaging and inclusive math classes, particularly for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous students, ...

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in upper elementary grades, they should be able to produce the answer to 6x3 ...

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

Is 2/7 larger than 4/11? That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public ...

A caravan leaves the University of Nevada, Reno six times each school year for an 800-mile round trip through Ely, Elko and Winnemucca. A group of educators is traveling to provide instruction support ...

The Washoe County School District is asking for the public’s input as it reviews new high school math instructional materials ...

Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in its full sense—draws on everything a person has been able to learn.

North Carolina Superintendent Catherine Truitt told state lawmakers Monday she wants to make big changes to how students are taught math. Truitt told the House Select Committee on Education Reform ...