Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...
“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, “because that is what they will remember.” It’s a sentence that has made me ...
Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. Roughly half of middle and high schoolers report losing ...
As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...
A new international study showing a significant drop in U.S. students' math test scores is raising concerns over student performance. The National Center for Education Statistics, or NCES, released ...
North Carolina lawmakers are interested in funding more teacher leadership roles, improving math skills among young students and continuing to monitor the impacts of stricter cellphone policies on ...
Being a teacher doesn’t mean guiding one person, it means finding a way to equally educate dozens of children with different backgrounds, and possibly languages. Middle school math teacher Amanda Yost ...