Ethnomathematics, a teaching approach that connects math to culture, is emerging as a way to create more engaging and inclusive math classes, particularly for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous students, ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

The Pittsburgh Public Schools Board has voted to hire a consulting group that educates teachers on how to replace "White supremacy culture practices" in math instruction with methods that center on ...

The California State Board of Education voted to adopt a new—and much-debated—math framework on Wednesday, concluding a years-long process that involved three drafts, prompted hundreds of suggested ...

Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) recently made national headlines over a new anti-racist training opportunity for the district’s math teachers. Conservative news outlets picked up the story last month ...

Teaching students how to get the right answer in math class is one thing. Getting to the conceptual level of understanding, however, is where some Nebraska teachers say they struggle. Merritt Nelson ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

A star student at her small Alabama high school, Kyra Richardson graduated confident in her academic prowess in all but one subject: math. By the time she arrived at Harvard in the fall of 2024, it ...