Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

The future elementary school teachers that Mark Montgomery works with at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, share a common fear: Most of them are “extremely anxious” about math.

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.

Math achievement scores have dropped, but some school boards are finding a teaching formula for student success ...

February 12, 2026 - California's Assembly Bill 218 made it possible for childhood abuse victims to sue public agencies up to their 40th birthday or five years after discovering the abuse. Teaching ...

Arkansas "is specific and detailed in telling teacher preparation programs what they need to do in terms of these four key math content topics, and the state also requires elementary teacher prep ...

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For more than five decades, educators have struggled to increase the number of American students who graduate with a STEM (Science, Technology, Mathematics and Engineering) degree. At the beginning of ...