Mississippi senators have passed the "Mississippi Math Act" to reform elementary school math education. The bill proposes placing math coaches in schools and implementing early screening for students.

Michael Slipenkyj is partly supported by a Mitacs internship with Vretta Inc., a Canadian educational technology company. Heather P. Douglas has developed an early numeracy screener that is being used ...

Are high school students getting the preparation they need for college math? The question, long a focus of study in K-12 math education and policy, is now the subject of a Senate inquiry. Sen. Bill ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal wants the state to boost education funding and enact a fairer tax system to pay for it. Reykdal on Thursday said he supports proposals that ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

As schools across the U.S. continue to grapple with low math achievement and persistent staffing shortages, some district leaders are exploring whether artificial intelligence can aid in improved ...

When completing math problems, students often have to show their work. It’s a method teachers use to catch errors in thinking, to make sure students are grasping mathematical concepts correctly. New ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...