The Journal

Rethinking How We Teach Math: Three Tips for Better Long-term Retention

In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...
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Do You Need Math Skills to Be Good at Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel's templates, automated formulas, and functions can simplify complex math tasks. Modern tech aids like Copilot can handle complex math operations, but knowing how they work will help ...
The Hechinger Report

The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...
Education Week

Kids Need to Know Their Math Facts. What Schools Can Do to Help

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...
Business Wire

“With Math I Can” Initiative Unveiled to Change Student Mindsets about Math

Amazon Education, ASCD, Character Lab, Common Sense Education, National Council of Teacher Mathematics (NCTM), Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS), ClassDoJo, and Teaching Channel join ...
Education Week

7 States Now Require Math Support for Struggling Students. Here’s What’s in the New Laws

At least seven states have recently passed legislation targeting math instruction—laws that require schools to identify and support struggling students and mandate that teachers receive additional ...