A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

As leaders of science and engineering departments at a public university, we have front row seats to the outcomes of America’s approach to kindergarten-12th grade (K-12) math education. We see ...

Contextualizing math is the path forward for math instruction across the country--making it relevant help students grasp ...

Too many potential STEM students, especially Latino and Black students, are being filtered out of opportunities because of tracking and placement practices. Too many students of all races are being ...

An AI math coaching platform, used as part of a tiered support structure, gives students access to tutoring and homework ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Toward the end of last school year, I sat on a virtual mathematics panel discussing the resilience of students in the face of COVID-19’s traumatic educational consequences. I began to examine the ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...