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 ...

Keeping students motivated and engaged in math is a challenge—but the right strategies can make all the difference. This webinar, designed for teachers and education leaders, will explore ...

Touch devices--such as iPods and iPads--represent a fundamental change in computing. They are unobtrusive, powerful, and intuitive devices that support authentic acts of learning through exploration, ...

A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...

A blend of family attitudes, cultural ideas, and frustration often lead students to believe that math ability is a fixed trait like eye color, teachers say. They believe they are either born with the ...

From left, Victoria Aguirre, first-grade teacher, Margie Ryckman, fourth-grade teacher, and Jill Carlson, fifth-grade teacher within GUSD say they walk into their classrooms each day with urgency, ...

For the last 25 years, my professional life has been devoted to teaching math. I’ve taught math to students in grades 6–8 as well as high school geometry, and I have loved every moment of it. For the ...

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 – ...

Math anxiety is common worldwide. Math anxiety can lead to poor performance and also deter people from taking math courses.