The new question-of-the-week is: How can project-based learning be used in math class? Project-based learning is a popular instructional strategy for many subjects, though it is not used as much in ...

A student suddenly needs to go to the bathroom mid-lesson. Another zones out completely, distracting nearby classmates during ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

During a visit by the Knowledge Matters Campaign to our district this spring, in answer to a question about what the panel of sixth- through eighth- grade students liked most about math, seventh ...

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.

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

A Missouri school district is now making its math curriculum more gender inclusive, updating word problems and other language-based math equations with "they/them" pronouns. As presented in a Webster ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.