"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

In recent times, the Federal Ministry of Education has been coming up with some rather bold reforms for education in Nigeria.

The Herald ran a story Oct. 1 that presented the state Department of Education scores for English language arts and mathematics standardized tests for 2024 in all Cape May County school districts.

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

Words can inspire. Numbers convict. And the numbers leave no reasonable doubt: Mike Norvell’s time at Florida State has run its course.

We are in the middle of Elul — the Hebrew month of abundance and reckoning. The summer has softened; the days are still warm but the light has shifted. Each morning, the shofar already calls us awake.

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...

English Language Learners (ELLs) at risk for math disabilities (MD) are challenged in solving word problems for numerous reasons such as (a) learning English as a second language, (b) limited ...

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Numeracy or numerosity, the ability to think about and use numbers, varies among human cultures and within populations, much like intelligence does. Many known languages, for example, have no words ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.