Getting early-childhood educators more comfortable with teaching math was the focus of a summer workshop held by the Erikson Institute in Chicago, Ill. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The ...

As racial inequity soars on the nation’s radar, math teachers are increasingly bringing social-justice questions into their classrooms to help students see the subject’s relevance and recognize that ...

For many people, math lessons might have been a bit of a snooze fest, but this third-grade teacher has found a way to make multiplication incredibly fun for her students—with a little help from Taylor ...

What is your most memorable math lesson? For me, it was when Mrs. Kaylor helped us visualize and understand place value by building straw men as we counted straws by units of one, ten, and a hundred.

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Munching on pepperoni slices courtesy of the mysterious pizza scholarship fund of their teacher, Dashiell “Dash” Young-Saver, just under a dozen students sat in the library of IDEA South Flores for ...

Royal Penewell taught math. When he wasn’t in class, he still taught. Even when math wasn’t the subject, he’d make it so. Better yet, Penewell took math and made it fun. “He always made mathematics ...