Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

Dyscalculia is a severe and persistent learning disability in math that affects about 5 to 8 percent of school-age children. Due to its impact on students’ ability to learn and retain basic math facts ...

Sharp declines in math performance in the wake of the pandemic have leaders and educators alike seeking impactful ways to reimagine math learning. The new school year is kicking off around the country ...

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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 ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

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 ...

One of the joys of being an educator is embracing all the differences every student brings to the classroom, while teaching them to celebrate those unique traits in themselves and each other. Yet, ...

Walking out onto the sunny parking lot at St. Catherine of Siena earlier this school year, nine middle schoolers crowded around their teacher’s green Kia Soul and geared up to change a tire for the ...

Data released by the Oregon Department of Education in the fall showed that student proficiency rates for mathematics dropped to about 30%. At the same time, investments championed by Gov. Tina Kotek ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...