Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

Last year, my seventh-grade class created at-scale drawings of cost-efficient cabins for an outdoor education camp. Using three-dimensional figures and proportional reasoning, my students designed and ...

A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring, nearly all ...

Learning math takes effort and can even feel uncomfortable, but moments of struggle and mistakes are part of the process. Research shows that productive struggle in math leads to better learning. But ...

Many college students struggle with math anxiety, which can slow their progression toward a degree or impact their choice of program of study. Some colleges and universities have sought to decrease ...

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AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. DPI released draft K-12 math standards proposed to replace required Math 3. Students would keep Math 1 and Math 2, then choose two ...

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but it’s a tough job. An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...