Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

(WJAR) — A Westerly elementary school is representing Rhode Island for their success in the classroom and on the keyboard. At an early age, students at Springbrook Elementary School are proving ...

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 ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of students from one Los Alamos Elementary School recently took home the top prize in a unique competition. Aspen Elementary’s “Odyssey of the Mind Division Two” team ...

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

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