Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

Mathematicians from across East Texas gathered at SFA on Tuesday to test their mental prowess against specially devised problems on bisection algorithms by Dr. Jeremy Becnel, associate professor math ...

The AI Math Coach, designed by math coaches and facilitators in the All Learners Network, offers on-demand instructional support for pre-K-5 educators, focusing on teacher expertise rather than ...

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 ...

For the last 25 years, my professional life has been devoted to teaching math. I’ve taught math to students in grades 6–8 as well as high school geometry, and I have loved every moment of it. For the ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. Give Cindy Cliche a math word problem, and she can tell you ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A new report from Just Equations, a policy institute focused on equity in math education, analyzed ...

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. Research analyzed 49 studies with 37,654 participants and ...

Count back & use the relationship between addition and subtraction to subtract within 20. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to find the error in DC's addition. Use ...

Counting bears are frequently used in early childhood classrooms and may be especially useful for students with math disabilities as they learn that numbers correspond with a certain quantity of items ...