While many school districts have been fixated in recent years on helping young students rebuild flagging math skills, there’s also a growing awareness that math learning among middle and high ...

Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle each ...

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

When students reach high school math, play typically disappears from the curriculum. But Kathy Sun is discovering new ways to bring play into high school math. A student’s math identity is usually ...

While nearly every industry is racing to integrate artificial intelligence, most schools are still teaching high school math the way it’s been done for decades–rooted in instructional material that is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis they collected on student stress levels. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The ...

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 ...

In integrated math courses like the one taught at Chapman High School, students typically learn a blend of algebra and geometry concepts in the same class, rather than separately. Credit: Doug Barrett ...

Does Advanced Placement Calculus carry too much weight in college admissions decisions? Some math experts are questioning the weight the course carries in lieu of other measures of math achievement ...

The rankings methodology for U.S. News & World Report's Best High Schools for STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – is based on the key principle that students at these schools must ...