We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

This adjunct math professor at Cheyney University is helping Black students feel more comfortable learning math. Akil Parker launched All This Math, a tutoring service, after students asked for help ...

One of the joys of being an educator is embracing all the differences every student brings to the classroom, while teaching them to celebrate those unique traits in themselves and each other. Yet, ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

This makes math easy and fun for students of all ages and levels. Children thrive when learning by reasoning, not by rote. We need to replace the blackboard way of learning with the reasoning way of ...

Tonica Tatum-Gormes leads her students through a math problem involving a money-saving strategy, Sept. 12, 2023. She teaches a course called Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications at Capital ...

Math education across the country is in urgent need of redesign, and recent NAEP scores confirm there is no time to waste, with students showing the largest decline in math scores for 4th and 8th ...

The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...