May 2026. We often celebrate and honor teachers during the month of May. This month, I want to celebrate and recognize math ...

Owatonna Public Schools are in the midst of a curriculum shift. This year has seen the rollout of new teaching methods and ...

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

In a Massachusetts school district, by 2021, after years of decline on the state test, only 12 percent of middle schoolers ...

The key to improving math outcomes isn’t a new program — it’s transforming how teachers understand and teach the subject.

Crystal McMachen, a middle school math teacher in Rapid City, told board members she worried the standards were ...

Brockton Public Schools in Massachusetts dramatically improved middle school math scores after introducing a unified curriculum, active teacher training, and structured collaboration. From 2021 to ...

Brockton Public Schools saw notable gains in middle school math after adopting a unified curriculum, active teacher training, and group-based instruction. In Delaware, a study of career ‘pathways’ ...

Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she’s trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Math fact fluency may be the single most important skill students should acquire in third grade. Understanding addition and multiplication is essential, but learning these skills to automaticity ...