Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...

April 30, 2026 - Students at college campuses across California recover hundreds of pounds of unserved food from dining halls to serve to their hungry classmates. In Dan Goldfield’s high school math ...

Doing repetitive computational problems for just a few minutes a day can help students grow their math muscles—and their ...

For generations, math has been taught according to the same, basic class structure—teachers lecture their students on concepts, and then ask them to work individually on math problems in their ...

Associate Professor of Mathematics Katy Ott was the first teacher to introduce Nerea Barranco Aramburu ’25 to the experience of learning through small group collaboration. Ott also introduced Arumbu ...

When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a teacher were spent sitting at an uncomfortable cafeteria table, watching someone slog through a PowerPoint about strategies for classroom ...

As teacher confidence grows, the way that math feels in the classroom begins to shift and evolves into a move positive ...

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 ...

Mrs. Jacobs continues to serve as an inspiration for her students at Sam Houston and says she has no plans of stepping away ...

ANAHEIM – Nine year-old Nancy Ruiz sits down at a cafeteria table strewn with small circular plastic chips, and cautiously examines a sheet of paper with a diagram for the “chip number puzzle.” The ...

This story was produced in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit news organization that partners with local newsrooms to deliver expert coverage of higher education. Alyssa Pfeifer always ...