This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deidre Kelly. It has been edited for length and clarity. This is my 14th year teaching sixth-grade math, and I enjoy it just as much as I did when ...

Parents probably have heard about the importance of developing early reading literacy skills in young children. What parents may not know is that math literacy also needs to be developed early, and ...

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Children can learn valuable lifelong skills in the kitchen: measuring ingredients, assessing ripeness, following a recipe, using small appliances, and much more. Have you ever considered that these ...

In Erin Bryan’s 5th grade math classroom, TGIF takes on a whole new meaning. Fridays don’t just herald the coming weekend. They’re also game days. “They all come in here on Fridays pumped,” said Bryan ...

With the right lesson plan, teachers can turn struggling students into budding mathematicians. The secret is carefully guiding their adventure in numbers I still vividly remember the day, 14 years ago ...

Eugenia Cheng is devoted to pure mathematics—an abstract field that is complex, largely theoretical, and scarcely mentioned in high school. Which makes her an unlikely candidate to bring math to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deidre Kelly is a mom of three and has taught 6th-grade math for 14 years. She turned to TikTok to keep her students engaged ...