As the coronavirus pandemic has closed schools around the country and forced many parents into the role of teachers, one lifeline may be particularly helpful: a free online math tutor. On a cloudy ...

The importance of good math skills cannot be overstated. From practical, day-to-day applications, such as counting change or understanding interest rates, to pursuing careers in STEM fields, it's ...

Students across the country were struggling with math before the pandemic, but the COVID-19 disruption caused their scores on national exams to plummet to historic lows. The struggle is resurfacing an ...

As soon as Darnell Boursiquot hits the hallways of a Florida middle school, he’s mobbed by starstruck teenagers. When he steps into a classroom, Sharpie-wielding students line up to ask for autographs ...

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Tina Hamilton-Shoemaker buses her students from Lima Senior to Heritage Elementary School twice a week. There, Shoemaker’s early childhood education students are paired with children from kindergarten ...

SAN ANTONIO – A recent study by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study showed math scores for U.S. students between fourth and eighth grade are declining. Part of the problem is ...

Michael Petrie is used to starting at the beginning of the chapters in his fifth-grade math book. So when tutor Ed Burchenal skipped forward to the chapter review, Michael was a little confused. "I ...

Anxiety about doing math problems can be relieved with a one-on-one math tutoring program, according to a new study. The study showed that tutoring fixed abnormal responses in the brain's fear ...