As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

A Texas teacher who helped struggling math students find success by integrating music into the curriculum is now teaching this method to other teachers. We have a story now about a teacher who used to ...

For many people, math lessons might have been a bit of a snooze fest, but this third-grade teacher has found a way to make multiplication incredibly fun for her students—with a little help from Taylor ...

When you walk into Monique Jackson's 3rd-grade classroom at Stevens Park Elementary, you're surrounded by soft lighting, positive affirmations, and math equations. "Tell me why y'all chose 8," Jackson ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

When this reporter, ahem, asked for a friendly reminder (wink-wink) about the math concept, Sykora explained the distributive property of multiplication. “For example, if you have 12 times 3, instead ...

Many elementary teachers have math anxiety stemming from their own schooling, which can impact their students' math performance. Ohio colleges are working to better prepare future teachers by focusing ...