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 ...

The average eighth grader is now three years below grade level in math. How can they do algebra if they’re struggling to divide fractions? Credit: Jill Brady/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

Tracking, or grouping students according to their perceived ability, is a common feature in high school math. But a new study finds that it’s widespread as early as elementary and middle school, ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in traditional high school classes, many have embraced trendy curricula ...

Middle school math class probably isn’t on most people’s lists of favorite school memories. But that could be changing in one central Alabama school district thanks to the efforts of a corps of math ...

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 ...

Siblings Selena and Adam Ge walked into Olney Hall ready to take on the MATHCOUNTS state championship. “I wasn’t really nervous,” says Selena Ge, a seventh-grade student from Jonas Clarke Middle ...

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