In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

I’m not a math teacher, but I assume that those who are, like the rest of us educators, can always use good ideas on how to improve instruction. Based on the feedback I’ve received on the posts in ...

Getting early-childhood educators more comfortable with teaching math was the focus of a summer workshop held by the Erikson Institute in Chicago, Ill. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The ...

Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

What was the hardest part about teaching during the pandemic? Seeing students who already struggled not be able to get what they needed during that time. Before the pandemic, I could work with ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deidre Kelly. It has been edited for length and clarity. This is my 14th year teaching sixth-grade math, and I enjoy it just as much as I did when ...