Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

Exploring concepts such as observation and measurement in the fresh air can give students a new and playful perspective on ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

About a dozen first-year UC Berkeley students gathered one afternoon last fall inside a classroom in Evans Hall, where math ...

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 ...