For decades, many students have sat in math classes wondering when they will ever use the lessons they are learning in real ...

Terre Haute North Vigo students Evie Mitchell and Azucena Vazquez already have their own side businesses, and on Tuesday, they had an opportunity to learn more about entrepreneurship during an event ...

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

The University of Minnesota’s Carlson Impact Lab provides students with opportunities to work with real clients and collaborate with peers. The Impact Lab launched in fall 2022 as a part of the newly ...

In recent decades, K-12 math education has evolved significantly, shifting from rote memorization to fostering conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. Achievement First (AF), a network of ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

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 ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Contextualizing math is the path forward for math instruction across the country--making it relevant help students grasp ...

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 ...