Why your child’s Grade 6 math score was decided in kindergarten — and how experts say Ontario is missing the chance to fix it

Carleton University researchers urge the province to introduce universal early numeracy screening for students, similar to ...
Mississippi Today

A law helped boost Mississippi’s reading scores. A decade later, state leaders are focusing on math

Legislators are considering a bill that would establish the Mississippi Math Act and require implementing interventions similar to those that led to the state’s celebrated gains in reading. Wake up ...

‘Not everyone gets one.’ 9 Macon schools earn state honor for academic growth

Several Bibb County schools earned state honors for literacy and math growth, showing progress even as challenges remain in ...
The Vancouver Sun on MSN

Canadian students' math scores are falling. What B.C. schools and parents can do about it

Near the end of sixth grade, Bronia DePedrina’s daughter became anxious and stressed about going to school.

Alabama invested in elementary math. But some schools have a long way to go

Alabama’s 2022 law reshaped math instruction at the elementary level by providing money for all schools to hire math coaches ...

Here's an expert's advice in helping your kids with math homework

Meet the former classroom instructional coach in charge of the state's new effort to turn around math performance in public schools ...
Chalkbeat on MSN

Here’s how Colorado’s ‘Oscars of teaching’ award winner helps sixth graders tackle math

Shana Engel, a sixth grade math teacher in Colorado Springs, is one of 30 national Milken Educator Award recipients for ...
Opinion

California’s reading reforms drive push for better math skills in early grades

Some of the supporters of the phonics curriculum California adopted last year are now urging statewide math screening for young students.
Educators Technology

AI Tools for Math Teachers: A Subject-Specific Guide

Microsoft Math Solver is a free tool that uses AI to recognize both printed and handwritten math. It’s particularly strong with geometric proofs and interactive graphing, and it pulls learning ...
Governing

Alabama Bets on Math Coaches to Raise Performance

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...
The Hechinger Report on MSN

Alabama made a big investment in elementary math, but underresourced schools still have a long way to go

GREENVILLE, Ala. — Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle.