At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

ALBANY, Ore. – It’s 7:15 on a Monday morning in May at Linn-Benton Community College in northwestern Oregon. Math professor Michael Lopez, a tape measure on his belt, paces in front of the 14 students ...

Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving, has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere. When Richard Rusczyk became interested in math ...

EdSource · College students repackage dining hall food waste to feed hungry peers College students repackage dining hall food waste to feed hungry peers April 30, 2026 - Students at college campuses ...

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High school students planning to apply to the University of California now have a broader set of courses they can take to meet the math requirement for admission to the public university system. As ...