Across the country, most 5th grade students, along with the rest of their elementary peers, sit in a single classroom with a single teacher for reading, math, science, and social studies instruction.

Many accomplished teachers are enthusiastic about the common-core math standards’ emphasis on mathematical reasoning and strategic expertise over rote computation, but some say the transition to the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Jim Green is a committed, experienced fifth-grade teacher who has learned about the state's efforts to change mathematics teaching indirectly ...

Is 2/7 larger than 4/11? That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public ...

MathFactLab, founded by former Essex Westford elementary school teacher Mike Kenny, now has more than 1 million users all ...

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 ...

Forget speaking in public or death, our greatest fear should be, “Help your fifth-grade child with their math homework.” Before COVID-19 we all expressed our deepest love and respect for the teachers ...

Hoping to help your fifth-grader with math skills? Here are some basic tips that experts suggest for fifth-graders. As the math they’re learning becomes more complicated and less obviously connected ...

Math will look and feel a lot different in San Francisco schools this year and that seems evident by the picture of the chilled-out chimpanzee on the cover of the new kindergarten textbook, with ...

(TNS) — State Schools Superintendent Steve Paine said Friday he’d support some type of one-time pay incentive for educators who aren’t certified to teach math, but are teaching it anyway, to increase ...