On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to ...

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

Here’s one more reason to detest teachers-unions and other special interests who prioritize everything but getting the kids ...

Math. It’s been known to make palms sweat and hearts race. Plenty of Kern County residents — students and parents especially — know how it feels to need a little extra help with the day’s math ...

NEW YORK - Parents, here is an assignment for you as the kids head back to school: Are you going to pay your children to do homework and get good grades? Some parents find their kids respond to ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

As children grow, their cognitive skills develop, and with that, their capacity to comprehend and apply mathematical concepts evolves. In this article, we’ll guide you through the key math skills kids ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

Counting bears are frequently used in early childhood classrooms and may be especially useful for students with math disabilities as they learn that numbers correspond with a certain quantity of items ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...

Across the country, schools are scrambling to catch up students in math as post-pandemic test scores reveal the depth of missing skills.

This story is part of a series reported by AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in ...