These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

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.

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...