Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she’s trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

April 30, 2026 - Students at college campuses across California recover hundreds of pounds of unserved food from dining halls to serve to their hungry classmates. Enrolling students in high school ...

Commentary: This gap between math reality and graduation rate has real consequences. First, students leaving high school are ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

A Roosevelt International Middle School student takes a math enrichment class by computer at home in 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Unified School District) This story first appeared at The 74, a ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Across the U.S., high school graduation rates have reached record highs, yet math proficiency remains alarmingly low. In Pennsylvania, new graduation pathways allow students to earn diplomas without ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

This video is no longer available. After students eagerly entered Amanda Blevins’ classroom at Mosaic Elementary on Thursday afternoon, she returned a graded assignment and then shifted their ...