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LearnPlatform study of 1,800 K-6 students at William Penn School District found use of DreamBox increased end-of-year test scores in just 55 minutes a week The LearnPlatform study included 1,800 K-6 ...

This adjunct math professor at Cheyney University is helping Black students feel more comfortable learning math. Akil Parker launched All This Math, a tutoring service, after students asked for help ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...

Superintendent Christy Boyte has lost count of the number of messages she’s received from vendors promising a digital silver bullet to boost math achievement in her Louisiana school district. Most are ...

When you walk into a math classroom in Charleston County School District, you can feel the difference. Students aren’t just memorizing steps–they’re reasoning through problems, explaining their ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Believe it or not, those tedious math lessons in school actually served a purpose. It's likely that at some point, you've found yourself sitting in a math class, scratching your head, and wondering ...