Jose Medrano and Rebeca Zapata shuddered at what their daughter, Miranda Zapata, brought home one recent day: fifth grade math homework. “Since it’s something I haven’t practiced recently, I feel like ...

This same principle applies to education: If students never meet resistance from mistakes, they fail to develop the ...

There’s a magical little corner of Pennsylvania where your Social Security check isn’t just a supplement—it’s a ticket to the good life. Punxsutawney might ring a bell as the home of a certain weather ...

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

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Newly released data from state assessments show just half of Illinois public school students could read at grade level and ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is trying to increase the percentage of students scoring at the highest level on the state Math ...

Manimas explained that this problem has been unsolved for about 2,500 years. “Finding the solution requires that we use trigonometric rations or natural proportion as our number values rather than ...

About 44 million people in 22 million households rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is also called food stamps, federal data show. Because about 39% of those recipients are ...

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