In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

A school the state labels as "low performing" is showing academic growth that school leaders say tells a very different story ...

This past spring, Dawne Coker found herself dressing up like her grandmother and baking cookies on camera, all for the sake of math. Coker, a K-5 instructional coach in Cumberland County schools in ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means table top games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for ...

PARKERSBURG — Students and volunteers gathered Thursday at Fairplains Elementary School for the annual Fraction Kitchen cooking and math event. Third-grade students learn math and measuring while ...

Our analyses of the mathematics to be learned, our reading of the research in cognitive psychology and mathematics education, our experience as learners and teachers of mathematics, and our ...

What kind of education best helps students learn math? In the province of Ontario, the most recent provincial standardized results (2024–25) show modest improvement in elementary mathematics ...

What mathematical knowledge do elementary teachers use in teaching? About 10 years ago, Deborah Ball and her colleagues at Michigan State University carried out a research project to address this ...