Ahead of the 2024 school year, PS's The Educators is spotlighting 24 public school teachers around the country who are making a difference. Shelby Lattimore is a third-grade math and science teacher ...

A blend of family attitudes, cultural ideas, and frustration often lead students to believe that math ability is a fixed trait like eye color, teachers say. They believe they are either born with the ...

At the beginning of the school year, Milton Elementary-Middle math teacher Annette Bodin gives her third grade students an eraser with their name on it. They read “The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes” ...

My instinct when I first saw Mathematics for Human Flour­ish­ing was avoidance. “I’ve never been very good at math,” I told myself. My math insecurity goes all the way back to Mrs. Vinneycombe, my ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

A third-grade math teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, is using her own experiences to help give students real-life lessons about money and finances. Shelby Lattimore is using fake money to show ...