If many students are struggling with operations like dividing decimals, this schoolwide approach to scheduling can help.

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 ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

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 ...

One of my first vivid memories of math is of timed tests. I still remember how visceral my panic felt–sweaty palms, heart pounding–as I scrambled to recall facts before the clock ran out. You might ...

The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...

Students listen as Knightdale High School teacher Alex Johnson reviews examples of sequences during a math class on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in Knightdale, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown ...

Kenny Felder, a math teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, explains repeating decimals to calculus students in February 2019. Julia Wall News & Observer file photo North Carolina lawmakers could ...