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.

We have a story now about a teacher who used to struggle to find ways for his students to like math. But Thomas Mayfield found a way through music. And as NPR's Mia Estrada reports, now Mayfield is ...

Local math teacher drops new rap video to help students master the subject He's back with another math rap. That Math Magician, also known as Jordan Orosco, a geometry teacher at Deer Valley High ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. (KGO) -- The push is on in Antioch to help low-income students get the tutoring they need, and the community is stepping up. "I really like this place, and it makes me happy that I ...

An Apalachee High School student processing the death of his algebra teacher, Christina Irimie, penned an emotional and heartfelt rap about her and the other three victims fatally shot inside his ...

Math is, by definition, a subject about numbers. But at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics this week, math educators said the subject has its own language, too—and knowing how to speak it ...

Ethnomathematics, a teaching approach that connects math to culture, is emerging as a way to create more engaging and inclusive math classes, particularly for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous students, ...