The New York governor also previewed several child care and education initiatives, including funding a free child care ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Sunil Singh, Laney Sammons, Abby Shink, Cathy Seeley, and Shannon Jones shared their thoughts ...

In the education world over the past few years, a lot of attention has been paid to phonics and balanced literacy and the ways in which reading instruction practices often don’t align with what we ...

Rick, I thought your recent interview with Andrew Coulson of ST Math was a fascinating look at how educational products—particularly those that address math—are promoted. In the interview, Coulson ...

Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in its full sense—draws on everything a person has been able to learn.

In an effort to improve math learning and instruction, Olentangy Schools has added a math specialist position at each of the district’s 16 elementary and five middle schools, starting with the ...

The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 111, No. 6 (2018), pp. 704-719 (16 pages) This study investigated the relationship between three cognitive features of mathematical instruction tasks (high ...

On March 30, 2020, I entered a whole new world of teaching my kindergarten class. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across the world have had to completely change the way we work. It took a week ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

I started my last two master's classes last night (!!). Since the classes consist largely of teachers, we usually end up having some pretty interesting discussions about teaching approaches to ...