During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...
Math teachers have had a new problem to solve this school year: How do you foster engagement and understanding among students when you’re often not in the room with them? “As if mathematics weren’t ...
Students never stop learning as they advance through grade school, and the same goes for teachers, who strive to grow in their profession. The Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics came to ...
As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and ...
These efficient feedback strategies support student learning without sacrificing a teacher's nights and weekends.
Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...
In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...
This story is part of a series from the national Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID ...
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 ...
Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...
JACKSON, MI - On paper, Joy Collier has been teaching for about 30 years, but her work in educating others on the joys of math goes back even further. Collier, 54, teaches several high school-level ...