We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...
OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — High school students across the state are learning virtually after the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services enacted its three-week epidemic order on November 15. The ...
Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...
When middle school math teachers completed an online professional development program that uses artificial intelligence to improve their math knowledge and teaching skills, their students’ math ...
Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - State lawmakers are introducing a bill that could bring virtual reality into the classrooms for middle and high school students. This is already being used in many schools across ...
A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...
Fierce wars continue to rage around math instruction, but there are many practical changes we should make for mathematics students upon which most of us can probably agree, that could transform their ...
Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...
Teaching students how to get the right answer in math class is one thing. Getting to the conceptual level of understanding, however, is where some Nebraska teachers say they struggle. Merritt Nelson ...
California has new guidelines for teaching math in public schools. The guidelines propose things like delaying algebra until the 9th grade. And offering classes like data science instead of advancing ...
WEST COLUMBIA — Sims Boland was only months into his teaching career when the outbreak of COVID-19 shut down his school. The eighth grade math teacher at Fulmer Middle School had his classes moved ...