Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

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In 2024, the number of students placed in one of UC San Diego’s lowest math courses — Math 2 and Math 3B — increased from 490 ...

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow ...

In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber ...

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. The kids had fun, but the ...

When students prove they're ready for advanced math, schools should enroll them automatically. New NAEP data shows how many ...

Newly released national test scores show student achievement in math rising at the elementary school level—but not among ...

As the school year winds down, new data is underscoring a persistent challenge in American education: students are still not ...