As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) Tracy Johnston Zager, a 4th grade math teacher from Washington state, has become a rock star among teachers, including ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Inside her fifth-grade classroom at Brandon Elementary School, teacher Jill Carlson sees her students slumped in their chairs ...

Kayla Thuemler, a first grade teacher in Milwaukee, shows other teachers how she solved a subtraction problem during a professional development session on math teaching. Credit: Abby J. McFarland for ...

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 ...

We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

Kirk Walters is a managing researcher for American Institutes for Research, or AIR, focused on K-12 math teaching and learning. As a teacher in San Bernardino, he joined in a research project and ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

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 ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...