Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

At Fair Oaks Elementary in Brooklyn Park, teacher Michelle Kennedy pushes her math students to give her more than just the right answer. Her tactic was on display during a recent lesson when she asked ...

Teacher Maro Mirzakhanyan works with students on math activities at a Pacific Clinics Head Start preschool in Glendale. Credit: Lillian Mongeau, EdSource In response to mounting evidence that ...

Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in its full sense—draws on everything a person has been able to learn.

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 ...

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

Recognizing how numbers relate to each other is key to mastering math. This ability, known as "structure sense," helps students break down complex problems. Researchers have long studied how early ...