In second grade, I stopped being able to do math. One night I went to do my long-division homework and I couldn’t figure it out. My mom demanded that I sit with my math teacher because my sudden ...

A little over two years ago, my current principal, Danny Swersky, emailed me about his vision for math instruction at KIPP: Washington Heights Middle School, a charter school that would soon be ...

A student uses My Math Academy. Dozens, maybe even hundreds of writers have pecked and published countless stories about pandemic-related learning gaps – the knowledge and skills that students have ...

As students across the country make the gradual return to in-person classes, teachers have looked to new digital platforms to help combat learning loss and narrow growing achievement gaps in early ...

As a young child in Long Island, New York, I struggled to learn how to count. I relied on my fingers to get from one to ten, but what happened after my pinky went down was a mystery. Without physical ...

Things weren’t going well with my math placement test—things have never gone well for me on any math test. As I tried to solve 13 – 5, I lost track while counting on my fingers, and as I calculated ...

What makes a good math teacher? Smart students who are talented in math? A mathematician’s brain? Or simply the patience to teach students who learn at their own pace and in their own way? It took me ...