Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

Are you a “math person”? It’s a question that gets settled at an early age: Most students have made up their mind about whether they identify as a math person by the time they’re in middle school, ...

In Denise Murphy’s classroom, fourth graders huddle over tables scattered with geometric tiles, discussing what “relationships” they think they’ll find among the blocks. It’s their first lesson on ...

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Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...