Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

On Thursday, junior Amilliyana Nance brought Playdough to practice spelling with Emarious Glenn, a first grader at Heritage.

Matthew Norris entered his first grade class into a national online math competition to motivate his students and help them learn. He didn’t think they would beat 20,000 classrooms around the country ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay included a widely quoted but outdated statistic for the proportion of Americans with math anxiety. How should we teach children math? Given that over 50 ...

First- through third-grade students in the Fort Worth Independent School District saw slight improvements in math testing from last school year, but they’re still trailing behind their peers across ...

Lehighton Area School District leaders say the key to improving student performance lies in one word — data. At Monday’s administrators unveiled the district’s 2025-26 beginning-of-the-year ...