Elections are all about numbers, sometimes hinging on miniscule percentage-point differences in turnouts. Math teacher Alison Strole’s middle school students know this better than your average ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...

This platform shows students how to perform various DIY experiments at home. Experiments include making a parachute, catapult, a solar cooker, and more. Students can use this online resource to access ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

When we think about lessons in joy and empathy, math class might not immediately spring to mind. But perhaps it should. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is often touted as ...

Open up a classic mathematics textbook written by a Welshman, Robert Recorde, and flip past the preface and the table of contents. There, you'll see the bold statement that math is "contemptible and ...

Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...

Learning from failure has become a popular idea in education recently, partly because it feels like common sense to many people. In a general way, the idea of “picking yourself up after a fall” has ...

A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman. Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...