We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Teaching math isn’t just about working through problems. Often, it’s about helping students work through baggage, too. After years of historic declines in math performance nationwide and sharp ...

Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...

With a mathematics education major, you’ll explore a subject you love while gaining the teaching skills to teach middle school and high school students. Become who you’re meant to be. While earning a ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

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Chang-Hsu (張旭) is an actual teacher who posts his math classes on Pornhub under the names @changhsumath666 and @changhsumath. What's False However, Chang told a journalist in 2021 he earned over ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

Learning mathematics is much more than memorization. Rote drill and practice have not shown to lead to significant improvements in mathematics abilities, but rather, using strategies that engage and ...

NYC Algebra teachers are dreading the next school year — when nearly all of them will have to use a commercial math curriculum being blasted as “a complete disaster.” Last year, teachers at 265 ...

If you are a math teacher in 2025, you have likely had The Conversation in the faculty lounge. It usually goes something like this:"I assigned a worksheet on qu ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...