At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

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Americans have a complicated relationship with math. Studies reveal that a vast majority of adults living in the United States believe math skills are essential — but more than a third report having ...

It’s kind of almost a reward for all the math that they had to learn up to that point," teacher Angie Kroger said.

North Carolina is overhauling its math standards, with major changes potentially coming to the courses students take in high school. The state Department of Public Instruction presented Thursday the ...