As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

I started my teaching career at a large comprehensive high school, teaching math exactly as I had been taught. Each day, I introduced my students to a new type of problem, solved a problem for them, ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Kentucky Teacher of the Year Michelle Gross, a middle school teacher from Spencer County, is among the finalists for the 2026 ...

The district has adopted a new curriculum and created “curriculum days” where math teachers collaborate to share strategies and problem-solve together.