Recent headlines about Oregon’s education system are less than promising. After years of improvement, Oregon’s graduation rate has stalled around 81%. And the release of national test scores shows ...

Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

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, ...

While mathematics is a fundamental skill crucial to daily life, U.S. parents today see math education as boring, outdated, and disconnected from the real world. (1) At the national level, short and ...

When we think about lessons in joy and empathy, math class might not immediately spring to mind. But perhaps it should. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is often touted as ...

Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...

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 ...

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Over the next five years, as many as 1,000 college students will be asked to grapple with the original writings of mathematicians like Euclid and Archimedes in a project that many experts say has good ...

Class 7's Ganita Prakash Part 2 revolutionizes math learning by connecting modern concepts to India's rich mathematical heritage. Highlighting figures like Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya, it reveals ...

Walking on to the deck, you see a whiteboard with numbers and symbols scribbled all over. The novice swimmer might ask, “Am I in math class or at swim practice?” However, the experienced swimmer knows ...