Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

Doing repetitive computational problems for just a few minutes a day can help students grow their math muscles—and their ...

Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...

Sonoma Valley Education Foundation has received a $25,000 grant from Impact100 Sonoma to help Altimira Middle School students ...

When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a teacher were spent sitting at an uncomfortable cafeteria table, watching someone slog through a PowerPoint about strategies for classroom ...

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 ...

Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

Middle school math doesn’t have to be worksheets and formulas — real-world, hands-on projects can make it exciting and meaningful. From designing stained-glass art with linear equations to running a ...

San Francisco eighth graders will have the option to take Algebra 1 next year after it was pulled from the school district’s middle school curriculum in 2014, and a yearslong campaign sought to ...