Square Root Day — an event that occurs only nine times in a century — was celebrated with a variety of math activities this week at the St. Augustine Elementary School gym. Square Root Day is an ...

Alyssa van Ryper concentrated as an equation appeared on a small computer screen: 12 x 11. She typed in the correct answer, 132, then tossed a “cannonball” bean bag onto a cornhole board painted like ...

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 ...

When elementary school students in her district struggle in math, Elizabeth Abel wants to get them support as soon as possible. That’s because addressing students’ gaps in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...