Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Preschool teacher Emily Johnson counts the row of green bear figurines Mayeda Alan, 4, has set on a table at the George Forbes ...

Carrie Stark always relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. Alas, the kids had fun, as AP reported, but the ...

Amid falling student scores and renewed debates about how the subject should be taught, math is in the spotlight once again. The pandemic, which affected student learning across the board, had ...

Were you a kid who struggled in math class? If so, vivid recollections of poring over algebra homework trying to understand the inscrutable equations are probably core memories from your school years.

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 ...

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

April 2, 2026 - Julie Edwards' daughter brought home a Chromebook from school in second grade to work on math and reading. But soon she was watching Youtube videos. Fierce wars continue to rage around ...

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 ...

Become the math teacher your future students need. There’s a difference between learning a subject and learning to teach it. You’ll want to do both to be the kind of teacher that inspires their ...

After teaching at Countryside School for 10 years following her graduation from the University of Illinois, Marci Kyung decided to take a break in 2021 to help run her family's business, ...

Tom Evert is a “teaching artist” who teaches math and geometry through the lens of interpretive dance at various Northeast Ohio schools. “We use dance to demonstrate our principles,” explained the ...

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 ...