A state bill may run into problems when trying to incorporate music education into middle school math classes. “In the same way that some people may not be math people, math teachers may not be music ...
Corner Middle School math teacher Zach Weldon had planned for the chaos of 24 students racing to play each other in rock paper scissors. The eighth-grade classroom buzzed with noise and activity. “Two ...
When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a teacher were spent sitting at an uncomfortable cafeteria table, watching someone slog through a PowerPoint about strategies for classroom ...
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Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...
Math is one of the subjects that gets the most attention in American education, but how well do we actually understand what good math instruction should look like? Should math classes consist of ...
When it was her turn to host all her fellow middle school math teachers, her boss and her boss’s boss to observe one of her eighth grade math classes at Evergreen Middle School in Hillsboro last month ...
This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...
The reading initiative will scale up to high school, and the math initiative will scale down to elementary school, the mayor ...