Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

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It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

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Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Math is often the most challenging class in a student’s course load. But it doesn’t have to be. Follow these tips to prevent ...

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha—a website that solves algebraic problems online—has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and with ...

He liked solving puzzles, finished his homework without much help, and rarely complained about school. That changed within a ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

OPB has been following a group of students in the Class of 2025, after the state of Oregon set a goal that every student starting with that class, should successfully complete high school. The group ...

In Paul Malc’s math class at Mantua Elementary on Wednesday afternoon, the longtime teacher asked his students to raise their hands if they plan to watch the Super Bowl. This video is no longer ...

Every parent expects school to challenge their child, but they also expect teachers to encourage students when subjects ...