to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and an 8th grade math teacher in Mattawan, Michigan.

A few straightforward shifts and strategies can help create math classrooms where even the most reticent learners find their footing.

Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, ...

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems ... between 17.5 percent to a massive 65.7 percent. It doesn’t take a scientist ...

In classrooms with mixed abilities, students reading a word problem out loud in groups can help, said David Dai, an 8th and 9th grade math instructor at the Barton Academy for Advanced World ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally ... told me that the district selected ...

Starting seventh grade at her first American school, facing classes taught entirely in English, Alisson Ramirez steeled ...

The school system in Aurora, Colorado, is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and ...

The school system in Aurora, Colorado, is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and ...

Hamilton Elementary second-grader Orlando Perez stares intently at his Chromebook screen as teacher Krystal Sorensen provides instructions for his next class, physical education. Orlando is in his ...