I once asked a colleague if he’d read a particular book. “Read it?” he replied incredulously. “I haven’t even taught it!” A former college English professor, he came by the joke honestly. The first ...

National group cites 4 pillars to math education for young kids. A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for ...

Become the math teacher your future students need. There’s a difference between learning a subject and learning to teach it. You’ll want to do both to be the kind of teacher that inspires their ...

Nine math teachers were nominated by administrators and faculty for our Teacher of the Week poll and now it's up to you to ...

The first time Richard Wong stood in front of a lecture hall of hundreds of students, it felt like a performance. “It was kind of scary to be like, ‘Here’s a class of 210 students. Teach them ...

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Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Carrie Stark always relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. Alas, the kids had fun, as AP reported, but the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE -- Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have ...

To the editor: Math classes should be eliminated and replaced by another recess period. In other words, if mathematics or arithmetic was taught as puzzles to be explored and as a fun activity instead ...