Excerpted from Dear Math: Why Kids Hate Math And What Teachers Can Do About It by Sarah Strong and Gigi Butterfield. Published by Times 10 Publications. As learning theorist Yrjo Engestrom (1995) ...

Teachers can harness the design principles of games to cultivate students’ curiosity, encourage productive struggle, and make ...

A new research study has found that students perform better in math classes held in the morning than those held in the afternoon. The Review of Economics and Statistics published Nolan Pope’s paper, ...

The drive to get every student to take so-called college gateway courses has succeeded, a new federal study finds, but students taking Algebra 1 and Geometry classes are getting considerably less ...

A new study co-written by a University of Illinois expert in math education suggests that incorporating technology in high school-level geometry classes not only makes the teaching of concepts such as ...

OPB has been following a group of students in the Class of 2025, after the state of Oregon set a goal that every student starting with that class, should successfully complete high school. The group ...

DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

Maryland may combine algebra and geometry courses for older students as part of a broader effort to improve performance in math across the state. A draft of the proposed policy shows that officials ...

This principal didn’t do his math. Tyee Chin of Flushing HS — a cornerstone of Mayor de Blasio’s limping Renewal Schools program — demands that teachers aim to pass 75 percent of their students, or ...

A new study suggests the students who used dynamic geometry software were more successful in discovering new mathematical ideas than when they used static, paper-based diagrams. A new study co-written ...