STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Instructor II Kim Walters is using her Math in Your World class to teach students that math is more than problems in a textbook––it’s a practical tool with everyday ...

Math exam questions should not try too hard to appear "realistic" by adding everyday-life stories, because students would simply strip away the context and convert them into familiar formulas to solve ...

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the oldest daughter of six, Vanessa Tostado always felt pressure from her immigrant parents to succeed in school. She enrolled ...

Federal data indicates that the student math scores that fell during the pandemic are still down. The state of Maine is trying to turn things around with a new initiative. Madi Smith of Maine Public ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance. Federal data ...