With falling scores on math tests such as the international Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests – which dropped between 2018 and 2022 by two-thirds of a year’s worth of ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. In education circles, early literacy ...

Frustrated math students may have a good excuse — some of the teaching methods meant to make math more relevant may in fact be making it harder to understand, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. They ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

Cassidy has asked 35 institutions about incoming students' math abilities, citing a "crisis" in K-12 math education.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Frustrated math students may have a good excuse -- some of the teaching methods meant to make math more relevant may in fact be making it harder to understand, U.S. researchers ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...