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 – ...
DoDEA Americas Secondary Math ISS Team recently concluded a groundbreaking professional development course, Building Thinking Classrooms, that brought together 114 pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade ...
A math professor has spent 20 years experimenting with ways to improve student engagement, and now his teaching strategies are going viral. Many teachers are trying teaching approaches known as ...
As teacher confidence grows, the way that math feels in the classroom begins to shift and evolves into a move positive ...
In a Massachusetts school district, by 2021, after years of decline on the state test, only 12 percent of middle schoolers ...
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Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow ...
Suzie Boss is a PBL advocate and author who has collaborated with teachers around the world to design engaging projects: When I facilitate workshops with teachers about project-based learning, one ...
There is increasing concern among educators, parents, and the public worldwide that technology might be impeding students' ability to think mathematically. A recent UK survey reported by The Guardian ...
After 15 years of inquiry into children’s understanding and learning of whole numbers, I can sum up what I have learned very simply. To teach math, you need to know three things. You need to know ...