Do you ever feel out of the loop while helping your child with math homework? Elementary school math has changed quite a bit over the years, and for parents, it can sometimes feel like a whole new ...

These clever hacks will help your kids estimate the number of jelly beans in a jar, leaves on a tree, and more.

Struggling to help your child with their homework? The older they get, the more difficult the assignments become, and for many people, math is the hardest subject to tackle. If just thinking about how ...

We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Here is another compilation of Good e-Reader Top 10 Apps for Google Android, this time targeting kids and education. All the apps mentioned here have one thing in common: all of them are designed to ...

DALLAS — In Eran McGowan’s math class, students try to teach each other. If a student is brave enough to share how they solved a math problem, they stand up in front of the other third graders and say ...

In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been shown to have a profound ...

About a decade ago, leaders at the Kentucky Department of Education set out to develop guidelines for what quality math instruction should looked like in the state, convening educators from the ...

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

Fierce wars continue to rage around math instruction, but there are many practical changes we should make for mathematics students upon which most of us can probably agree, that could transform their ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Sarah Powell, an ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...