Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

For the next three years, every superintendent needs to focus on improving middle school math. Performance on California’s 2022 Smarter Balanced scores dropped 6.5% in math and 4% in English language ...

Northside Middle School eighth grade math teacher Amber Benson reviews a slope exercise. She and co-teacher Ruby Voss said they try to make students stakeholders in each other’s success. Credit: ...

Looking for some math problem-solving activities for middle school? Good, you’re at the right page then. Right before children enter Middle School (around the age of 11 or 12), they enter a critical ...

The middle school landscape is interesting no matter how you spin it, but combine students’ physical and emotional changes with new and difficult content, and unique challenges face educators and ...

A state bill may run into problems when trying to incorporate music education into middle school math classes. “In the same way that some people may not be math people, math teachers may not be music ...

As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in ...

Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

Palo Alto Board of Education members and some parents were largely enthused about district leadership’s plan to overhaul middle school mathematics over the next several years, while other parents ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

It's been more than two decades since Omama Kjerstin Gabrielson had to solve for x and y. When her sixth-grade daughter came home with a pile of math problems to solve, Gabrielson dusted off those old ...