Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

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

BYU mathematics professor Doug Corey and a team of students created a YouTube channel devoted to applying theoretical math concepts to real-world problems. Imagine this: the BYU Cougars men’s ...

Associate Professor of Mathematics Katy Ott was the first teacher to introduce Nerea Barranco Aramburu ’25 to the experience of learning through small group collaboration. Ott also introduced Arumbu ...

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow ...

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 ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

Remember when showing a video in class meant wrestling a VCR and hoping the tape didn’t get eaten? Yeah, me neither, but I’ve heard stories. Now, with all this new technology in the classroom, video ...

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, ...

CHEYNEY, Pa. (CBS) -- An HBCU adjunct professor has made it his life's mission to help Black students get more comfortable with math. Akil Parker shares his passion for numbers as an adjunct math ...

Professor of Mathematics Bill Kinney ’90 remembers that early on in his career, it was his dream to teach at a place like Bethel. As he studied on campus in the late 1980s, he fell in love with the ...