This lesson sees Chris Johnson opening a bakery, with some maths help from Bitesize Daily’s Mrs Vee. They learn how to count and use place value to figure out which numbers are bigger and smaller.

For nearly an hour, no one speaks a word of English in this first-grade math class. Not the teacher, Ying Ying Wu, who talks energetically in Mandarin’s songlike tones. Not the students — 6- and ...

With the return to school comes a return to students sitting at their desks for hours every day—and teachers’ subsequent challenge of managing those fidgeting students. There has been considerable ...