As math gaps continue to widen in many grades, educators face an uphill battle to help students regain ground in the subject. Following historic math declines on the Nation’s Report Card in 2022, a ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

There is a scene in the film Incredibles 2 where young Dash asks his dad Bob for help with his maths homework. Bob obliges and begins to scribble on a notepad. But Dash quickly points to his textbook ...

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

Over 20 years ago, Bob Moses, a civil rights activist and educator, published “Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project.” In his book, Moses argued that teaching math ...

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 ...

California is developing a new framework to guide math instruction K-12 classrooms. Despite recent major reforms in the way math is taught in California, fewer than half of the state’s students meet ...

Re “California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash” (front page, Nov. 5): De-emphasizing math, including calculus, in favor of teaching social justice is a false dichotomy. What I ...

The government’s recently announced plans to “transform maths education” have set off a heated debate over how the subject is taught in classrooms. Primary and intermediate schools will now have a new ...

Maths education expert questions education ministry decision (6 min 54 sec) The government is extending a maths teaching programme after a pilot showed it improved struggling learners' maths knowledge ...