Speak positively about math and reward effort rather than grades or ability. Think about how important reading is and how we are told to model this behavior for our children. We need to place math in ...

Want to help your 10th-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. For high school students, math skills and understandings are organized not by grade ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

Student scores in math achievement have dropped under inquiry-based instruction. But some school boards are returning to an ...

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“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

The district has adopted a new curriculum and created “curriculum days” where math teachers collaborate to share strategies and problem-solve together.