Students in Rose Moe’s sixth grade math class at Lincoln Middle School are given a mission each year: to design the ultimate lunchbox. Working in groups of three, they embark on a four to six week ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

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

A new math curriculum project at Calvin College is complete and ready to be used by middle school and high school teachers across the country and beyond. The project comes from the Kuyers Institute ...

The average eighth grader is now three years below grade level in math. How can they do algebra if they’re struggling to divide fractions? Credit: Jill Brady/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

A small but growing number of American schools are reducing or delaying access to advanced courses. Most often, these changes have been enacted in the name of reducing achievement gaps between ...

Middle school math class probably isn’t on most people’s lists of favorite school memories. But that could be changing in one central Alabama school district thanks to the efforts of a corps of math ...

Science one semester, social studies the next. Or social studies and science alternating every other day. These are familiar schedules for the two subjects in elementary schools, where professional ...

SALUDA — South Carolina’s education leaders have a simple message for their state: “Every student is a math student.” They’re tired of the idea that some kids just aren’t good at math, or that it’s ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...