The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds

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Daily CameraOpinion

More math, not less, will lead students to succeed (Editorial)

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...
Los Angeles Times

I only took three years of high school math, escaped with a ‘D’ and turned out OK

I’ve never managed to master much beyond the nuts and bolts of math. I was an honor student who could ace almost every subject, but ninth-grade geometry tripped me up. I slipped through with a C, but ...
Government Technology

Math Teachers Find Uses for AI in Lesson Planning, Tutoring

(TNS) — Matthew Karabinos was hesitant to try ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool, when it first came out in 2022. The sixth-grade math teacher was concerned about what the technology ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...
Education Week

A Third of Students Don’t Identify as a ‘Math Person.’ Can Teachers Change That?

Are you a “math person”? It’s a question that gets settled at an early age: Most students have made up their mind about whether they identify as a math person by the time they’re in middle school, ...
The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore’s math scores consistently trail Maryland’s. Here’s city schools’ 5-year plan for improvement.

When Baltimore’s chief academic officer and other school officials saw the stark results of a state standardized math exam in the summer of 2022, they set a plan to overhaul how students learn math.
Los Angeles Times

Modern high school math should be about data science — not Algebra 2

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...
New York Post

NYC teachers blast new math curriculum amid leaked reports of failing test scores: ‘Complete disaster’

NYC Algebra teachers are dreading the next school year — when nearly all of them will have to use a commercial math curriculum being blasted as “a complete disaster.” Last year, teachers at 265 ...
EdSource

Proposed mathematics pathways for California high school students raise equity concerns

The recommendation in California’s proposed new framework for mathematics to develop new pathways for 11th- and 12th-grade students could result in reducing college and career options in STEM fields ...
The Hechinger Report

OPINION: As a Black middle-school student, I was tracked into lower-level math classes that kept me back

More than half of U.S. states now recognize that their traditional approaches, including math tracking, often advantage an elite few while overlooking the needs of the broader student population.