After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

The results are in — and they’re not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to ...

Mathematics has been the broccoli of school subjects for generations of Australian teenagers. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Often pushed aside, dreaded, or even ...

Math anxiety affects roughly 25 percent of students, which can prevent them from learning and taking more advanced mathematics courses. Fear around the subject can include being in a math class, ...

With AI’s ability to solve complex math problems in a matter of seconds, it may feel to teachers like the technology is rapidly changing—or will soon—how math is taught. When free and widely available ...

It's been five years since COVID-19 first closed classrooms, leading to learning loss, especially in math. When the pandemic hit, Westerville City Schools, like so many other districts in Ohio and ...

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Math anxiety is causing many students to self-sort out of the STEM career pipeline early, closing off career paths that would likely be fulfilling (and lucrative). Credit: Andrea Morales for The ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Math isn’t just about numbers. It’s about language, too. Many math tasks involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These language demands can be particularly challenging for students whose ...