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Every year, a handful of fourth-graders at each of Broomfield’s four Boulder Valley elementary schools needed accelerated math. But the four or five mathematically gifted students weren’t enough to ...

Many elementary teachers have math anxiety stemming from their own schooling, which can impact their students' math performance. Ohio colleges are working to better prepare future teachers by focusing ...

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 ...

Recent state test results revealed that many Alabama elementary school students need help with math skills. Fewer than half of third through fifth graders were proficient in math. This trend isn’t new ...

Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework. That’s starting to change, ...

That joyfulness can extend even to the more mundane lessons, like learning new vocabulary, which historically has involved ...

“This is a really big deal,” Shawnee Elementary School principal Sean Killen said Wednesday at an assembly at the school. Everyone found time for First in Math activities despite the adjustment to ...

Lynda Colgan receives funding from SSHRC, NSERC, The Council of Ontario Directors of Education, The Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario, The Mathematics Knowledge Network (The Fields ...

Byron Elementary students answered nearly 30,000 math questions to earn first place in Georgia’s Prodigy State Challenge for ...