Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

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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 ...

In 2023-24 at Samish Elementary, only 21% of students were consistently showing grade-level knowledge. The next year, that number jumped to 44%. School officials credit targeted efforts by teachers ...

Byron Elementary students answered nearly 30,000 math questions to earn first place in Georgia’s Prodigy State Challenge for ...

Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson's daughter relied on her ...

Most fourth graders in this country are not proficient in math. That was true for one rural Wisconsin elementary school until it changed the way it taught the subject. Most of the nation's fourth ...

The film features a conversation between a student named Bernard and another person helping him with his math homework. They discuss various math problems, including multiplication and division, while ...

This Houston County school's award-winning “Problem of the Month” uses real-world puzzles to build critical thinking, earning the school statewide recognition.

State Superintendent Catherine Truitt wants elementary and middle schools to provide students with at least 60 minutes a day of math instruction to boost their math skills. Truitt presented to a state ...

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 ...