Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

The average eighth grader is now three years below grade level in math. How can they do algebra if they’re struggling to divide fractions? Credit: Jill Brady/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ...

University researchers are exploring a new way to use large language models (LLMs) for middle school math education. Researchers at George Mason University and William and Mary University have created ...

NYC Solves has faced criticism from educators for assuming kids have mastered skills, leaving some lost and frustrated.

Students can’t succeed in math if they’re never exposed to it. And many students never get access to advanced—or even some foundational—math in high school. New federal civil rights data and an ...

Students at Dewitt Middle School and Boynton Middle School have the opportunity to make modular origami, play a math version of Wordle and challenge themselves with mathematical Sudoku, also known as ...

A small but growing number of American schools are reducing or delaying access to advanced courses. Most often, these changes have been enacted in the name of reducing achievement gaps between ...

More than half of U.S. states now recognize that their traditional approaches, including math tracking, often advantage an elite few while overlooking the needs of the broader student population.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – At South Tahoe Middle School and South Tahoe High School, a remarkable partnership is unfolding, one that is setting a new standard for math education in the community. In ...

Science one semester, social studies the next. Or social studies and science alternating every other day. These are familiar schedules for the two subjects in elementary schools, where professional ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...