In recent decades, K-12 math education has evolved significantly, shifting from rote memorization to fostering conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. Achievement First (AF), a network of ...

Steven Bouma-Prediger seldom sees students walking between classes without their faces buried in their smartphones. This ...

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Robinson unveiled a new set of equations that translate romantic phrases and symbols into mathematics. To create them, he drew on disciplines ranging from trigonometry and ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

I teach fourth grade. I have a student who always loses the papers that he is supposed to have in spite of the fact that students have color-coded folders for each subject and were taught at the ...

Individuals with strong attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, related to inefficient cognitive executive function, may experience a surprising benefit: a natural inclination toward ...

At first glance, it may be tempting to assume that, when it comes to education, presenting students with more material in a ...

While more than half of the students are students of color, about 83 percent of the state’s teachers are white. More than a third of students are Latino, but 11 percent of teachers are.