Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

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A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

For the last 25 years, my professional life has been devoted to teaching math. I’ve taught math to students in grades 6–8 as well as high school geometry, and I have loved every moment of it. For the ...

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10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Achieving success in math-intensive courses depends on developing a solid grasp of core concepts and the capacity to transfer that knowledge to new problems. Explore strategies ...

Math is not easy to teach or learn. So, teachers use a variety of strategies to boost their students’ numeracy skills as they progress through math education. But some of those approaches could be ...