A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for students in pre-K-5 found there are four key elements to ...
Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.
For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...
Provincial governments can improve math outcomes, but reforms must be guided by evidence and by leaders willing to change ...
A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.
Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the most ...
The word “algorithm” can sometimes seem like a word designed to scare people away from math classes, much like the words “calculus”, “Fourier transform”, or “engineering exam”. But in reality it’s ...
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 ...
These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.
Math is a problem — one that a relentless onslaught of testing has not solved. Some assume kids are the ones failing, but it’s time to acknowledge that it’s our tests and the curriculum they determine ...
Math-M-Addicts students eagerly dive into complex math problems during class. In the building of the Speyer Legacy School in New York City, a revolutionary math program is quietly producing some of ...