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UNICEF estimates that one-third of the children of school-going age do not have access to education. Only 7% of children aged 7-14 demonstrate the expected numeracy skills, whereas only 12% come up in ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

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.

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since January’s inauguration, two trends have characterized education policy during the second Trump administration. This ...

Schools operate on a factory model invented when we actually needed factory workers. In any given classroom, there were twenty-odd kids with one teacher giving everyone the same lesson at the same ...

In 2021, Guinea had a literacy rate of 45%, making it one of the world’s countries with the worst education systems. To improve childhood access to education, the World Bank is running the Education ...