Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

International tests scores released this month provide further evidence that U.S. students are behind where they should be in math, a problem that has huge implications for their success in school and ...

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A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

As her 7th graders wrapped up the school year this past spring, Louisiana math teacher Lerinda Baham was finishing a class of her own—a 50-hour teacher training in middle school math. With the ...

It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...