Students recalled how competition between students being publicly "right" or "wrong" featured in their math lessons. Another student recalled how their teacher held back the whole class until a ...

Math education leaders have long said children should not be labeled "bad at math," even if they struggle mightily with the subject. Such a classification is racist, sexist, classist, inaccurate, ...

What was the hardest part about teaching during the pandemic? Seeing students who already struggled not be able to get what they needed during that time. Before the pandemic, I could work with ...

Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the most effective way to address it, many teachers struggle to deliver this level of ...

Five years ago, Alabama's math was literally the worst. On national assessments from 2019, the state was ranked last in the country for math performance. Across the state, only 22 percent of students ...

“Subtraction!” most of the 3rd graders responded in chorus when asked what operation they needed to use to solve a problem. I noted that 100% of students were engaged and I gave the teacher an ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a photo of a tutor working with a third grader at his desk. Math education leaders have long said children should not be ...