It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Math is often the most challenging class in a student’s course load. But it doesn’t have to be. Follow these tips to prevent ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Steven Levitt, like many parents, has spent countless evenings helping his kids with their math homework. Increasingly, his four teenagers’ work on quadratic equations and imaginary zeros has felt ...

Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...