Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If asked to name the school districts that do the best job of teaching math, people might think of wealthy enclaves like Scarsdale ...

Data released by the Oregon Department of Education in the fall showed that student proficiency rates for mathematics dropped to about 30%. At the same time, investments championed by Gov. Tina Kotek ...

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a teacher were spent sitting at an uncomfortable cafeteria table, watching someone slog through a PowerPoint about strategies for classroom ...

While nearly every industry is racing to integrate artificial intelligence, most schools are still teaching high school math the way it’s been done for decades–rooted in instructional material that is ...

Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students' individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

Sixty-eight percent of surveyed students say they turn to AI tools for math assignments or exams when they need extra help.

When Baltimore’s chief academic officer and other school officials saw the stark results of a state standardized math exam in the summer of 2022, they set a plan to overhaul how students learn math.

Results from a study by the University of Chicago Education Lab and the nonprofit MDRC have shown promise in reducing the pandemic-era learning loss in students. The preliminary results from the ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

More than half of U.S. states now recognize that their traditional approaches, including math tracking, often advantage an elite few while overlooking the needs of the broader student population.