As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

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I started my teaching career at a large comprehensive high school, teaching math exactly as I had been taught. Each day, I introduced my students to a new type of problem, solved a problem for them, ...

Seventh-grade teachers across the tri-city area are inspiring middle schoolers to engage in subjects such as history, math ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - You would never know it by looking at her classroom, but this is Aresha Vinson’s first year teaching 7th grade math at Brewbaker Middle School. Vinson started her career ...

Want to help your seventh-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom in seventh grade. At a “25% Off” sale, Marissa buys a skirt for $40.50. What was ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) — Sara Glotzbach’s love for teaching started at Chanute High School, with the Future Educators of America class. “I’ve taught 3rd grade, 4th grade, 6th grade, I was an instructional math ...

It wasn’t working. We’d gone through six straight wrong answers, and now the kids were tired of feeling lost. It was only October, and already my fourth-grade public school class in the South Bronx ...

Why seventh grade in middle school seems to be the absolute worst for teens. In sixth grade, Carrie Rountrey's son Owen couldn't wait to get to school. "He used to get up, make his lunch, do ...