Tracy Johnston Zager, a 4th grade math teacher from Washington state, has become a rock star among teachers, including many in California, for her advice on how to teach math. Some are adding photos ...

Kirk Walters is a managing researcher for American Institutes for Research, or AIR, focused on K-12 math teaching and learning. As a teacher in San Bernardino, he joined in a research project and ...

Ohio education officials have unveiled a new statewide math plan aimed at reversing years of stagnant achievement and helping students recover from pandemic setbacks. The 47-page document, Ohio’s Plan ...

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 ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

The idea that math is a natural-born talent—that some people just “get it,” and others won’t no matter the time and effort put in—is a mentality that researchers and schools have been challenging for ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

Most of us either loved or hated math in school. If you grew up with negative feelings about math, you can avoid inadvertently passing these attitudes to your children. When I taught math in grade ...