The 74 reports that schools excelling in math also tend to excel in reading, indicating a strong correlation between subject ...

I once asked a colleague if he’d read a particular book. “Read it?” he replied incredulously. “I haven’t even taught it!” A former college English professor, he came by the joke honestly. The first ...

That was true on the 2025 report card, which showed only 38.4% of Illinois students overall scored proficient or better in ...

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...

Mathbots haven’t done much for K-12 math instruction. Can more sophisticated uses of AI succeed in turning around American ...

A group of California parents and preschool teachers are overcoming their fear of math and discovering new confidence to teach it to young children through an unexpected source: storybooks. A series ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

As founder of Just Equations, a nonprofit focusing on expanding math opportunities, Pamela Burdman says math instruction today often misses the mark, focusing on procedures, algorithms, and ...

Santa will be at Kump Education Center for a Centennial Celebration with a curious collection of 100 Christmas trees on Sunday, Dec. 21 from 1-3 p.m. at the 100-year-old brick house across from Kroger ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

Were you a kid who struggled in math class? If so, vivid recollections of poring over algebra homework trying to understand the inscrutable equations are probably core memories from your school years.