Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

This post is by Kyna Airriess, a 9th grade student at Gary and Jerri Ann Jacobs High Tech High. In third grade I decided I didn’t like math. I wasn’t good at it, and I simply wasn’t going to pay it ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...