Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think. This is what Assistant Professor Yemimah King discovered in her research on how parents' word usage is related ...

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Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

Math is, by definition, a subject about numbers. But at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics this week, math educators said the subject has its own language, too—and knowing how to speak it ...

The AI Math Coach, designed by math coaches and facilitators in the All Learners Network, offers on-demand instructional support for pre-K-5 educators, focusing on teacher expertise rather than ...

WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Neil Heffernan has been awarded a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Institute of ...

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress just painted a dismal picture of math performance in America’s schools, continuing to show more than a decade of stagnation.

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded an 18-month, $500,000 research and development grant to the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children to advance early math learning for children and ...

Being a teacher doesn’t mean guiding one person, it means finding a way to equally educate dozens of children with different backgrounds, and possibly languages. Middle school math teacher Amanda Yost ...

Fierce wars continue to rage around math instruction, but there are many practical changes we should make for mathematics students upon which most of us can probably agree, that could transform their ...

In the education world over the past few years, a lot of attention has been paid to phonics and balanced literacy and the ways in which reading instruction practices often don’t align with what we ...

Estonian startup 99math has raised $2.1 million to boost its edtech math gaming platform aimed at making math fun. The new funds will help the company reach the U.S. and other markets with more social ...