Tonya Clarke has always loved math. But the students she taught during her first year in the classroom 25 years ago decidedly did not. The class of juniors and seniors in Georgia’s Clayton County ...

In this month’s message, I want to share a new advocacy resource, High School Mathematics Pathways Infographics. This series of one-page documents is designed for families, math teachers, ...

What is it about math that is different than other subjects? It’s often rote-memory heavy, rule- or procedure-based, and only some people are good at it. What if we could teach differently than you ...

Math isn’t just about numbers. It’s about language, too. Many math tasks involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These language demands can be particularly challenging for students whose ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learning ...

There is no special “math gene” that naturally makes some people better at math than others. Credit: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Big Ideas Learning, based in Erie, provides a $250 cash prize each week to Golden Apple Award-winning teachers. Celebrating ...

Students in Years 1 and 2, the equivalent of kindergarten and first grade in the U.S., prepare for a math lesson at St. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand. Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger ...

The California Mathematics Framework (C.M.F.) is an arguably obscure but extremely consequential document informing the educations of millions of children, from transitional kindergarten to twelfth ...

National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year on December 22 to mark the birth anniversary of India’s legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The day is observed across schools and colleges ...