Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Parking enforcement is returning to parts of Richmond’s Scott’s Addition for the first time in years. Starting on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, select streets in the Greater Scott’s ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

In many schools where I coach, double periods of math instruction have become common to support struggling learners. This extended time is often underutilized for students who are already on track, ...

What’s the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

The fluorescent lighting inside a hospital can be unforgiving. Freddie Gutierrez settles into a waiting room at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, wearing sleek, designer shades like the kind ...

When something as big as the Super Bowl is coming up soon, it can be hard to stay focused. This is especially true for families that are die hard sports fans, or if your city’s team is in the Super ...

Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America's schools, and new data, known as the Nation's Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In math, many ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Hoda Kotb had a confession to make during Friday’s (Oct. 4) episode of Today: Her second grader’s math homework is only “getting harder” for her. She admitted as much ...

Timed math fluency exercises—in which students are asked to solve a certain number of problems within a minute or two—do not appear to exacerbate students’ math anxiety, new research finds. The study, ...