BATON ROUGE, La. — About two dozen second graders sat on the carpet at the front of Jacquelyn Anthony’s classroom, reviewing how to make tens. “Two needs eight!” the students yelled out together. “Six ...

Children at Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts line up to switch classrooms for math and English classes on Dec. 9, 2025, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Credit: Annie Flanagan for The ...

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The amount of time parents spend with their children contributes much less to their progress in school than the family's social class, new research shows. The study found that the time parents spent ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Confidence in your ability to learn is the key to success in math class! Some students who experience difficulty or struggle learning in math class give up because they think that they are not capable ...

DALLAS — In Eran McGowan’s math class, students try to teach each other. If a student is brave enough to share how they solved a math problem, they stand up in front of the other third graders and say ...