Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.

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These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

A dozen parents gathered around veteran math educator Leanna Baker, moments before students show up for what is billed as a math “festival” for students at Allendale Elementary School in Oakland. “Do ...

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Every year, a handful of fourth-graders at each of Broomfield’s four Boulder Valley elementary schools needed accelerated math. But the four or five mathematically gifted students weren’t enough to ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

The Mountain Park Elementary School construction class buzzed with the sounds of nearly 30 children sanding, drilling and hammering. Small hands deftly filed rough edges, clamped wood pieces in place ...

Students answered 7,773 math questions correctly in December to secure the state title.

Prodigy, a web-based math learning program, named the Cascade Elementary School students state champions for the month of ...

If you’re the parent of an elementary school-age child, chances are good (OK, about one in ten, although actual numbers are hard to pin down) that you’ve encountered Everyday Math. Chances are ...