About a decade ago, leaders at the Kentucky Department of Education set out to develop guidelines for what quality math instruction should looked like in the state, convening educators from the ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

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January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Fierce wars continue to rage around math ...

California has new guidelines for teaching math in public schools. The guidelines propose things like delaying algebra until the 9th grade. And offering classes like data science instead of advancing ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 16—The Ohio Senate's version of the state budget bill would change the way Ohio students learn math. Ohio schools' math and ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

BALTIMORE -- Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

Math is not everyone's favorite subject—it can be frustrating and tedious when equations seem to come from thin air and concepts lack proper context. A great solution to this problem would be a class ...