After a year of distance learning, the range of skill levels in math class is very wide, with some students still learning concepts from several grades behind. That means teachers have to get creative ...
Students actively engage in tasks that are doable and interesting—which frees up time for personalized instruction.
An AP Statistics teacher decided to ask his students what they wanted to learn about. The results are a curriculum that makes math feel relevant to students' interests. In a high-poverty school in San ...
The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...
Tonya Clarke has always loved math. But the students she taught during her first year in the classroom 25 years ago decidedly did not. The class of juniors and seniors in Georgia’s Clayton County ...
POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- Andrew Powers makes learning math fun at Chain of Lakes Elementary in Winter Haven. On this day, his students worked with a partner to solve math problems. “I remember when I was ...
Math education outcomes in the United States have been unequal for decades. Learners in the top 10% socioeconomically tend to be about four grade levels ahead of learners in the bottom 10%—a statistic ...
Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...
It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...