NORWALK — Grace Papadakos walked into math class at Nathan Hale Middle School donning a confident smile. Despite a large room full of 75-or-so bustling sixth-graders with no permanently assigned seats ...

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When Bonneville Joint School District 93 adopts a new kindergarten- through sixth-grade math curriculum this fall, about one-third of its elementary school teachers will have a jump-start in how best ...

HOUSTON – Lyndsy Mason talks about math the way some people talk about music. “I love math because it’s a language,” she says. Mason is a sixth-grade accelerated honors math teacher at Fleming Middle ...

The idea of being “bad at math” or “not a math person” is deeply entrenched in American education — for students and teachers alike. But it doesn’t have to be, says Phonisha Hawkins, director of ...

This post is by Donna Le Fever, who teaches sixth grade math and science at High Tech Middle Media Arts in San Diego. I took a course on reading and writing across the curriculum, and the teacher ...

Merely minutes after Bryan school board members heard testimony about the schools that made drastic improvements in state accountability scores last year, they heard concerns about math standards that ...