Reader’s Digest calls him “America’s Best Math Teacher.” The Huffington Post calls him one of the world’s top 100 “Game-Changers.” Edward Burger simply calls himself “a passionate, imaginative, ...

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Being a teacher doesn’t mean guiding one person, it means finding a way to equally educate dozens of children with different backgrounds, and possibly languages. Middle school math teacher Amanda Yost ...

Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning equation for children’s math achievement, according to new research from the University of Chicago. Even children who used the app with their ...

A new study suggests that parents should expose their young children to larger numbers to help them advance their math skills. The study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found a positive ...

In 1989, pediatricians at Boston City Hospital started urging parents to read to their kids. That effort, “Reach Out and Read,” is often credited as the start of the early childhood literacy movement.

California school districts have long struggled with a persistent gap in math test scores between racial and ethnic groups. But at one small rural school district, the gap between Latino and white ...

To increase the number of students entering math and science fields, it’s not enough for them to perform well in math. They have to enjoy it enough to make it a big part of their lives. New research ...

Omo Moses, the CEO of MathTalk, comes from a long line of Cambridge activists. There are his parents, Bob and Janet Moses, well-known civil rights leaders and founders of the Algebra Project, an ...