Siblings Selena and Adam Ge walked into Olney Hall ready to take on the MATHCOUNTS state championship. “I wasn’t really nervous,” says Selena Ge, a seventh-grade student from Jonas Clarke Middle ...

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: ...

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University researchers are exploring a new way to use large language models (LLMs) for middle school math education. Researchers at George Mason University and William and Mary University have created ...

Sixth graders in the math class taught by Marietta Gibb and Nicole Parasiliti at DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca work in small groups, allowing kids to practice different skills in the same classroom.

Corner Middle School math teacher Zach Weldon had planned for the chaos of 24 students racing to play each other in rock paper scissors. The eighth-grade classroom buzzed with noise and activity. “Two ...