How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

Consider the following scenario that frequently occurs in math classes throughout higher education. On the first day of class, a math professor announces to students, “If you don’t know this, this and ...

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 ...

More than 465 Hechinger Report readers filled out our survey about math education. They raised issues ranging from worry about math anxiety to anger about unequal access to higher-level math courses ...

More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

Become the math teacher your future students need. There’s a difference between learning a subject and learning to teach it. You’ll want to do both to be the kind of teacher that inspires their ...

Earlier this week, I wrote about the history of progressive math education, the culture wars it has inspired over the past hundred years, and the controversy over the California Math Framework. Today, ...

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Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House Correspondent for "The Daily Signal." Send her an email. The Oregon Department of Education is instructing teachers on the keys to dismantling “systemic ...

Howard’s students at Greenville Elementary School were calculating remainders in division problems on worksheets, and Howard ...

Maryland will combine teaching algebra and geometry into a two-year “integrated” math curriculum for middle and high school students, following a unanimous vote from the state board of education ...