After a year of sitting at their computers, King/Robinson fourth graders were ready to move. Their teacher, Michelle Romanelli, realized she could harness that energy to help them learn math. This led ...

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

DANBURY — Imagine back in grade school writing down how you really feel about math, and then handing it in to your teacher. Except you don’t get in trouble. In most cases it may be, but it’s one of ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

Detroit — One student in Kimberly Thompson's fourth-grade math group was so excited about his lesson on place value in patterns of 10 and multiplying by 10 that he started solving questions ahead of ...