In 2023-24 at Samish Elementary, only 21% of students were consistently showing grade-level knowledge. The next year, that number jumped to 44%. School officials credit targeted efforts by teachers ...

In math, Cotter’s average score in grades one through eight was about 9.6 points above the national average. For example, the national average for fifth grade was 206, and Cotter’s was 213.9.

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Pasco High School bilingual math teacher Gabriela Whitemarsh stands in front of Seattle artist Steve Gardner’s “Where Will You Go?” mural on campus. The 2010 piece depicts two people in a boat and ...

Why So Many Students In Kashmir Give Up On Math. Representational PhotoBy Rayees YaseenOn a winter morning in south Kashmir, ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with traditional assessments.

Four years after the pandemic emergency ended and K-12 performance plunged nationwide, New Jersey’s third through eighth graders are finally edging up to be on par with pre-pandemic levels, although ...

A simple looking grade-school math problem has stumped the masses. Can you solve it correctly? The simple equation shared by @BholanathDutta on X this week, who regularly posts brainteasers, read ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same question about AI. When you purchase ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...