NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – When it comes to learning mathematics, Southern Connecticut State University has a new approach. What do you get when you combine the games of a scavenger hunt and escape ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...

What was the hardest part about teaching during the pandemic? Seeing students who already struggled not be able to get what they needed during that time. Before the pandemic, I could work with ...

If many students are struggling with operations like dividing decimals, this schoolwide approach to scheduling can help.

Corner Middle School math teacher Zach Weldon had planned for the chaos of 24 students racing to play each other in rock paper scissors. The eighth-grade classroom buzzed with noise and activity. “Two ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Almost three-quarters of high school students think that they can be good at math if they work hard, but fewer say they follow through with that effort when the work gets challenging, according to a ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

Each time Anna Galer ’25 walks into a new math class, she counts the number of fellow women seated around her. In her experience at Brown, that number has almost always fit on just one hand. Despite ...