If good math policies are the ingredients, qualified math teachers are the chefs serving students an opportunity to compete ...

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

Mattea Thomas, a sixth-grade math teacher at Allapattah Flats K-8 in Port St. Lucie, has been named Teacher of the Month for ...

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 ...

I once asked a colleague if he’d read a particular book. “Read it?” he replied incredulously. “I haven’t even taught it!” A former college English professor, he came by the joke honestly. The first ...

The 74 reports that schools excelling in math also tend to excel in reading, indicating a strong correlation between subject ...

There is no special “math gene” that naturally makes some people better at math than others. Credit: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Pasco High School bilingual math teacher Gabriela Whitemarsh stands in front of Seattle artist Steve Gardner’s “Where Will You Go?” mural on campus. The 2010 piece depicts two people in a boat and ...

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.

Mom-of-four Amanda was looking through her daughter’s math homework when she came across the problem that had her baffled.