“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Even more concerning is that ...

The Humboldt County Office of Education (HCOE) is working hard to support students, teachers, and families when it comes to learning math. In 2022, Humboldt County joined the Rural Math Collaborative ...

Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...

MALTA • As 25 fifth-graders bent over their papers, trying to solve a story problem, visitor Rhonda Birnie strolled the aisle, glancing at their work. “I like the way you’re thinking,” Birnie said, ...

Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework. That’s starting to change, ...

Shanequa Dasher is a former teacher who is bridging the gap between math and creativity through her company Dasher Creations. She sat down with Jessica Abo to talk about her program “Calculate and ...

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When Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a bold new plan to crush public education under the boot of literacy-suspicious authoritarians, Republicans swore up and down that this was not ...

Most of us either loved or hated math in school. If you grew up with negative feelings about math, you can avoid inadvertently passing these attitudes to your children. When I taught math in grade ...