Math is, by definition, a subject about numbers. But at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics this week, math educators said the subject has its own language, too—and knowing how to speak it ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Math isn’t just about numbers. It’s about language, too. Many math tasks involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These language demands can be particularly challenging for students whose ...

The announcement outlines what the administration plans to champion after canceling hundreds of grants in the past few weeks.

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

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Researchers at two universities designed and tested AI classmates, to help real middle schoolers practice math modeling. The ...

Students in Glassboro teacher Karen Peale's Book and Cook Program can count on eating the fruits of their math lessons. That's because Peale is teaching students math, language arts, science and life ...