When Mark looked over his fifth grade son’s homework, he expected to see a few mistakes in math or spelling. Instead, he ...

SAGINAW, MI – Gathering on a rug for story time, climbing on playground equipment and playing with friends are all part of a normal school day for a kindergartner like Meciah Thomas. But when the ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, ...

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Earlier in my career, I consistently assigned what many of us think of as traditional math homework: a worksheet with 20 similar problems or a textbook page full of several repetitive problems. This ...

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When the digital revolution first hit classrooms in the early 2010s—and more schools began issuing laptops or tablets to students for individual use—online learning seemed to promise a faster, easier ...

In a bid to improve state test scores, New York City public schools have embarked on a major undertaking to standardize math instruction across its middle and high schools — but some teachers have ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Most of the math problems we present to elementary students are scripted. They might come from the curriculum we are teaching, or maybe they are a three-act math task we learned at a workshop or found ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Elementary math teacher Margie Howells teaches a ...