A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

Sixth graders in the math class taught by Marietta Gibb and Nicole Parasiliti at DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca work in small groups, allowing kids to practice different skills in the same classroom.

Math teachers have had a new problem to solve this school year: How do you foster engagement and understanding among students when you’re often not in the room with them? “As if mathematics weren’t ...

Math educator Dan Finkel grew up doing math with ease and completed calculus as a freshman in high school. But it wasn't until he went to math summer camp and learned how to think like a mathematician ...

When we think about lessons in joy and empathy, math class might not immediately spring to mind. But perhaps it should. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is often touted as ...

Multiplication and long division rarely get pep rallies. But Michaela Sicuranza, a 5th grade teacher at Sinking Springs Elementary, in York, Pa., thinks building an exciting, competitive identity ...