Just as calculators once were banned from classrooms, and later embraced, AI technology is finding greater acceptance among ...

The San Francisco Unified School District is investigating a math teacher at Lowell High School amid questions about his teaching methods.

Microsoft Math Solver is a free tool that uses AI to recognize both printed and handwritten math. It’s particularly strong with geometric proofs and interactive graphing, and it pulls learning ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and ...

March 5, 2026 - Teachers are striking for better pay, benefits and class size. But school districts say their budgets are extremely tight and they’re contemplating layoffs. California stands at a ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Teachers today are faced with many teaching challenges, including how to offer hands-on learning experiences that support critical thinking skills while also meeting the needs of a diverse group of ...

When completing math problems, students often have to show their work. It’s a method teachers use to catch errors in thinking, to make sure students are grasping mathematical concepts correctly. New ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...