Threading prior knowledge into new material makes for more durable learning. Here are 12 research-backed, teacher-tested strategies to help kids unpack what they already know.

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

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After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

Utah tried to infuse data science into its math standards. That effort got caught up in a broader debate about rigor and what math high schoolers need.

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A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

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Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

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A sixth grade math teacher explains how TikTok helped her engage students, support parents, and build a massive following beyond the classroom.