Education leaders across Pennsylvania readily acknowledge that student achievement in mathematics is not where it needs to be. This harsh reality, exacerbated by the pandemic, continues today as we ...

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The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...

A Pennsylvania school district may incorporate "feelings" into its math curriculum. Littlestown Area School District proposed an elementary math curriculum that could integrate social-emotional ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In 2019, Minnequa Elementary in Pueblo was on the brink of closing because of low test scores ...

Rosa Mendoza tried her best to make sure her children kept up with their math lessons during the prolonged school closures. She hung a white board in the kitchen of their East Dallas apartment so she ...

A fifth-grade student in Ellanise Hines’ class works on calculating the volume of a prism. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...

Associate Professor of Computational Media David Lee's two children enjoy math games at the festival. Students were challenged with logic problems and geometric puzzles. More than 80 local elementary ...

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 ...