Standardized testing might intimidate and sometimes hinder students who struggle with math. Some school districts like Dallas ISD are trying a different method to improve student performance. Eureka ...

Third grade teacher Eran McGowan works through math problems with his students at the Eddie Bernice Johnson STEM Academy in Dallas on Feb. 5. (Azul Sordo For The Texas Tribune, Azul Sordo For The ...

DALLAS — In Eran McGowan’s math class, students try to teach each other. If a student is brave enough to share how they solved a math problem, they stand up in front of the other third graders and say ...

HOUSTON – Lyndsy Mason talks about math the way some people talk about music. “I love math because it’s a language,” she says. Mason is a sixth-grade accelerated honors math teacher at Fleming Middle ...

When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha was little when ...

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