As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

There is a student who self-studied the entire high school curriculum from 'The Standard of Mathematics' when he was just a first-year middle schooler. He is Yoon Seong-geun, a third-year student at ...

What started as a 50-point class project has become a published tool for changing how students think about mathematics.

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...

Nacogdoches - Martinsville ISD teacher Dawn Ryan is typical of most of the small-school teachers in East Texas. "I teach pre-cal, algebra 1, 8th-grade math, 7th-grade math, 7th-grade pre-algebra, and ...

Want to help your seventh-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom in seventh grade. At a “25% Off” sale, Marissa buys a skirt for $40.50. What was ...

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

Turning math learning into a social and engaging activity helps build confidence in students and also drives academic ...

In 1929, the superintendent of schools in Ithaca, New York, sent out a challenge to his colleagues in other cities. "What," he asked, "can we drop from the elementary school curriculum?" He complained ...

Lawsuit alleges negligence and security failures after inmate died in 2024 ...