Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Percentages are a way to represent a proportion of a number or a shape. Proportion tells you how much of one thing there is in relation to the whole. The word per cent means 'out of 100', so a ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

What can be said about math riddles? Everyone in the world has a love-hate relationship with them. You can hate math, but you have to accept that it is vital in our day-to-day lives. The world cannot ...