The WOW! Children’s Museum in Lafayette is one of 20 museums nationwide to join a training program focused on math literacy ...

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

Jose Medrano and Rebeca Zapata shuddered at what their daughter, Miranda Zapata, brought home one recent day: fifth grade math homework. “Since it’s something I haven’t practiced recently, I feel like ...

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Rather than study how to use AI, students in this machine learning class work with the math that makes the AI work.

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In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to ...

We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, ...