Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...
Mathematics anxiety is a feeling of tension and fear when dealing with numbers or performing calculations. It is a common form of academic anxiety: according to an OECD report, around 40% of students ...
The disruptions to children’s schooling over the past two years have caused millions of American parents to come to an unexpected revelation: They are not as good at math as they had hoped. Nothing ...
Let’s join Mr. Joel Lookadoo this morning for another entertaining math game! Make sure you have a pair of dice handy because today we’re to adding and subtracting based on the numbers we roll. Rise ...
WASHINGTON – Kids who are turned off by math often say they don’t enjoy it, they aren’t good at it and they see little point in it. Who knew that could be a formula for success? The nations with the ...
Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
In 1929, the superintendent of schools in Ithaca, New York, sent out a challenge to his colleagues in other cities. "What," he asked, "can we drop from the elementary school curriculum?" He complained ...
Many parents have had to play the role of a substitute math teacher during the pandemic. damircudic/E+ via Getty Images In his March 2021 Netflix special, comedian Nate Bargatze complains about having ...
The problem with social media in-jokes is they don’t stay funny for long. Someone takes them too seriously, then they become overblown commentaries on society as a whole, and then a media outlet goes ...
The school that Kenschaft visited happened to be in a very poor district, with mostly African American kids, so at first she figured that the worst teachers must have been assigned to that school, and ...