The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A few years ago, ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Schools around the country are holding math nights, sending letters home, and posting videos on their websites to teach parents about the Common Core State Standards for mathematics, which require ...

When Edward B. Burger presents a math challenge to his class at Baylor University, he paces the aisles and pairs students together. “I want to hear chattering,” he says. Before long, students are ...

Two recent studies show that K-12 teachers’ nagging ignorance of fundamentals has contributed to historic declines in U.S. math performance. The National Council on Teacher Quality reported Tuesday ...

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

For some time now, school leaders have struggled to recruit staff to teach certain subjects. Efforts to tackle the shortage have so far failed to produce the numbers required, but if we want top ...

A boy in Lafayette, Indiana, recently thought his struggle with math was an emergency. He called 911 and told the operator he’d had a bad day at school and had tons of homework. The operator asked him ...

Led by math teacher Alexis Dekel and dancer Kimberly Rae Gilbert, the eight-member coed team creates movements to interpret concepts such as right angles, numerals and more abstract quantitative ...

The study develops and validates a reliable two-dimensional scale to measure primary school teachers’ attitudes towards using ...