“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

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.

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Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Leanna Pitsoulakis took a lap around her freshmen honors math class at Carl Sandburg High School, scanning the work spread across each student’s desk before returning to the front of the room with a ...

This fall, Temple’s math department accommodated more than 1,100 students in need of developmental math skills.

University researchers are exploring a new way to use large language models (LLMs) for middle school math education. Researchers at George Mason University and William and Mary University have created ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...