Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

A state bill may run into problems when trying to incorporate music education into middle school math classes. “In the same way that some people may not be math people, math teachers may not be music ...

Corner Middle School math teacher Zach Weldon had planned for the chaos of 24 students racing to play each other in rock paper scissors. The eighth-grade classroom buzzed with noise and activity. “Two ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

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 ...

From suburbs in the Northeast to major cities on the West Coast, a surprising subject is prompting ballot measures, lawsuits and bitter fights among parents: algebra. Students have been required for ...