Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay included a widely quoted but outdated statistic for the proportion of Americans with math anxiety. How should we teach children math? Given that over 50 ...

First- through third-grade students in the Fort Worth Independent School District saw slight improvements in math testing from last school year, but they’re still trailing behind their peers across ...

Matthew Norris entered his first grade class into a national online math competition to motivate his students and help them learn. He didn’t think they would beat 20,000 classrooms around the country ...

Jose Medrano and Rebeca Zapata shuddered at what their daughter, Miranda Zapata, brought home one recent day: fifth grade math homework. “Since it’s something I haven’t practiced recently, I feel like ...