This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...

More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

Xenia — A local student is saying she is not learning math at school and she’s worried it could impact her college outlooks. “She broke down crying in the kitchen. Just broke down crying, and I don’t ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Hundreds of high school students from across the southeast will connect at the College of ...

Students in Years 1 and 2, the equivalent of kindergarten and first grade in the U.S., prepare for a math lesson at St. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand. Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...