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Come and pull up a chair in Deborah Harper’s senior-level math class, there are plenty to go around because the students don’t use them. Class starts with each student randomly drawing a card which ...

Math is viewed by parents as perhaps the most critical subject that children study and a key to their success, according to a newly released poll, as The 74 reported. But educators need to make their ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Each month, Dayton Daily News reporter Eileen McClory highlights local ideas that improve outcomes for students and teachers in the Dayton area. Last year, the proficiency rate in ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Cookies and math ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

“For some, common core is creating common confusion,” said education correspondent Rehema Ellis on a recent NBC News segment. The crux of the news piece was that parents are struggling to help their ...

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Using concepts students are already familiar with — like how bottles vibrate — can serve as a helpful anchor for more complex topics.

Here’s a shout out to fellow gray-hairs who learned math the “old-fashioned” way, by memorizing simple formulas along with facts about addition and multiplication. This technique is anathema in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same ...