New Mexico legislation focusing on K-3 math education aims to improve stubbornly low scores

Aaron Jawson regularly spends time reteaching the basics to his sixth grade math students. They often have a bit of a complex ...

Alabama invested in elementary math. But some schools have a long way to go

Alabama’s 2022 law reshaped math instruction at the elementary level by providing money for all schools to hire math coaches ...
The Conversation

Increasing math scores: Why Ontario needs early numeracy screening

Michael Slipenkyj is partly supported by a Mitacs internship with Vretta Inc., a Canadian educational technology company. Heather P. Douglas has developed an early numeracy screener that is being used ...
ESPN

NFeLementary, the football-based curriculum taking over Mary Crippen's classroom

ATLANTA FALCONS RUNNING back Bijan Robinson got a meaningful surprise last September when Mary Crippen showed up at Mercedes-Benz Stadium to volunteer for his "Bijan Reads" book fair. The event was ...
Education Week

How the Vocabulary Math Teachers Use Affects Student Learning

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...
WESA

Third-grade math scores are up. PPS says improving attendance is the next big step.

Pittsburgh Miller African Centered Academy, a K-5 elementary school in the Hill District. Pittsburgh school leaders say maintaining strides in third-grade math proficiency will require increased ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

North Little Rock superintendent says retaining teachers, boosting tutoring can turn schools around

A high number of unlicensed teachers and chronic student absenteeism have been major hurdles to academic success at the North Little Rock School District's D and F campuses, Superintendent Gregory J.
Newsweek

Dad ‘Embarrassed’ To Be Struggling With Daughter’s Third-Grade Math Problem

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...
Reason

Court Upholds Three-Day Suspension of "Third-Grade Math and Science Teacher" for Maintaining "LGBTQ+"-Themed Books in Classroom

An excerpt from Monday's long decision by Judge Douglas Cole (S.D. Ohio) in Cahall v. Cole New Richmond Exempted Village School Dist. Bd. of Ed.: Plaintiff Karen Cahall is a third-grade math and ...
WRAL

NC schools test scores rise again, make near post-pandemic recovery in math

North Carolina students are making big gains in math, though they remain behind the proficiency rates of 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, new data from the North Carolina ...
NPR

A Wisconsin elementary school changed how it taught math – and saw test scores rise

Most fourth graders in this country are not proficient in math. That was true for one rural Wisconsin elementary school until it changed the way it taught the subject. Most of the nation's fourth ...