Students’ math scores have plummeted, national assessments show, and educators are working hard to turn math outcomes around. But it’s a challenge, made harder by factors like math anxiety, students’ ...

For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. The kids had fun, but the ...

Is 2/7 larger than 4/11? That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public ...