Editor's note: Reporter AnnMarie Hilton shadowed fourth-grade teacher Brianna Weyers in advance of Teacher Appreciation Week, May 8-12. It was barely 7:30 a.m. and Brianna Weyers was already standing ...
GREENVILLE, Ala. — Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle.
A new online math program is flipping traditional math instruction on its head, doing away with instructions and celebrating mistakes. Teachers say Struggly, available for at-home or classroom use, is ...
In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...