Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

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 ...

A growing number of teachers are speaking out about a troubling trend they say they’re seeing in classrooms: students arriving without basic academic and life skills that were once considered a given.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Seeing students who already struggled not be ...

When Frances E. Anderson saw the latest math scores for America’s fourth-and eighth-graders, she was hardly surprised that they had dropped. Until recently — including the period of remote instruction ...