To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Math has always been a tricky subject for many of us, abstract, rigid, and often intimidating. But thanks to artificial ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Illustrative Mathematics was established in 2011 at the University of Arizona as a means to assist schools in adopting the ...

In an effort to keep ahead of the escalating challenge of third grade mathematics, my 8-year-old enjoys practicing story ...