“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars ...

Men are now competing for women's attention against a supposedly "hot" math equation, and the very concept has got some dudes ...

Nariah Farrar was in seventh grade when AI tools went mainstream in schools. With AI embedded in common social media apps like Snapchat, talk among her peers promised an intriguing shortcut for ...

👉 Learn how to identify angles from a figure. This video explains how to solve problems using angle relationships between parallel lines and a transversal. We'll determine the solution given, ...

Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...

Brainteasers are known as entertainment sources but apart from being a leisure activity, they also serve many benefits. For example, math puzzles help in improving cognitive skills which further ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

The following is an excerpt from “It’s Not Magic: The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders,” by John Amaechi (Wiley, Sept. 23, 2025). I regularly, and as gently as possible, challenge people on how ...