We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk receives funding from the IES and NSF. When middle school math teachers completed an online professional development program that uses artificial intelligence to improve their ...

The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new study.

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic may have thrust online education and distance learning into the spotlight in 2020, but it's not new. In fact, 1 in 5 public schools already offered courses entirely online during ...

Math has never been my strong suit. I opted out of it at every turn, particularly in college, where I enrolled in linguistics to fulfill my quantitative reasoning requirement. I even tried to overcome ...

Math is not everyone's favorite subject—it can be frustrating and tedious when equations seem to come from thin air and concepts lack proper context. A great solution to this problem would be a class ...

Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...

It’s something that educators hear from students in classes, children express to caregivers as they start homework and even adults say to each other when it’s time to calculate the tip for lunch.

One of the smallest measures moving through the Kentucky General Assembly could have the biggest effects for the state's young people. Senate Joint Resolution 19 — just two pages long — would direct ...