These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

University researchers are exploring a new way to use large language models (LLMs) for middle school math education. Researchers at George Mason University and William and Mary University have created ...

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

Math anxiety affects roughly 25 percent of students, which can prevent them from learning and taking more advanced mathematics courses. Fear around the subject can include being in a math class, ...

Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the most ...

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

Top artificial intelligence systems now ace many textbook-style math questions, yet they still fall apart on genuinely new ...

There is no special “math gene” that naturally makes some people better at math than others. Credit: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.