A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and outcomes for marginalized kids, said schools seeking a turnaround must first ...

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 ...

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, ...

It’s time to “get back to basics” in math, Gov. Kathy Hochul says as she calls for sensible curricular and instruction ...

The New Mexico Senate unanimously passed two bills furthering the state’s approach to improving math and literacy instruction ...

Carrie Stark always relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. Alas, the kids had fun, as AP reported, but the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To learn the geometric concept of transformations this year, Crystal Watson’s eighth-graders drew up blueprints of apartments. As ...

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.