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

Implementing seasonal math strategies in the fall is a simple yet powerful way to build early mathematical understanding.

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 ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

More than half of Texas teachers use AI in the classroom, a new report shows. But they often don’t have any training on how ...

This story is part of a series from the Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. At the Erikson Institute, a child-development-focused graduate school in Chicago, this annual ...

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also ...

Elementary school teachers often play a special role in their students’ lives, wiping away their kindergarteners’ tears when they’re missing their parents or supporting their fourth graders through a ...

Grand Ledge math teacher Katie Westen will attempt to win $1 million for local schools by throwing a football at the Michigan ...