Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.
Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...
Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.
Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...
Mathbots haven’t done much for K-12 math instruction. Can more sophisticated uses of AI succeed in turning around American students’ falling scores?
Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...
The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...
Byron Elementary students answered nearly 30,000 math questions to earn first place in Georgia’s Prodigy State Challenge for ...
One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below high-school levels in math, according to a university report. One in 12 do not meet middle school math standards.
When math expectations are not transparent and aligned across a state’s schools, colleges and universities, students’ paths ...