Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

If many students are struggling with operations like dividing decimals, this schoolwide approach to scheduling can help.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Katy Ott was the first teacher to introduce Nerea Barranco Aramburu ’25 to the experience of learning through small group collaboration. Ott also introduced Arumbu ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Ask a parent, politician, or school board member to describe the ideal qualifications of a math teacher, and most would probably rank having a college major in that ...

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 ...

Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

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 ...

The May 23 article, “Three Ways to Build Student Confidence in Math,” resonated deeply with my research on psychological safety and feedback in math classrooms. The article highlights formative ...

Prior to the COVID pandemic, technology integration in my high school math classroom was mainly used in two ways: discovery-based activities and homework assignments. Finding applicable resources for ...

Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they ...

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 – ...

For folks in the literacy world, the bitter fight over California’s math framework sounded eerily familiar. On one side, proponents of the framework argued that students need to learn to love math, ...