A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Math doesn’t have to be drills and worksheets — research shows that playful, game-based learning can spark curiosity and strengthen skills. From number board games to gamified apps, interactive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once ...

Math is all around us: the music you listen to, the vehicles you drive and even the food you bake can all be represented mathematically. But for most kids - and many adults - the word math evokes ...

Mindfulness is making its way into math classrooms, helping students reduce anxiety, focus better, and even improve test ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One month into the school year, my math classroom is buzzing with familiar rhythms: assessments, routines and students still ...

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For all that education has changed in recent times—from the disappearance of cursive lessons to the rise of computer science in classrooms to pandemic-forced remote learning—one thing has remained ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

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A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...