Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

One of the biggest barriers for secondary English learners in math is not computation, but language. The subject’s complex ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

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.