“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.

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For generations, math has been taught according to the same, basic class structure—teachers lecture their students on concepts, and then ask them to work individually on math problems in their ...

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 ...

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Abstract Algebra” lecture, I tend to buffer them with filler words: “like,” “wait,” “sorry.” While my friend and I raise our ...

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 ...

ANAHEIM – Nine year-old Nancy Ruiz sits down at a cafeteria table strewn with small circular plastic chips, and cautiously examines a sheet of paper with a diagram for the “chip number puzzle.” The ...

For Daniel James, teaching applied linear algebra and a 6 a.m. weightlifting class aren’t as different as they may seem.

While most states have graduation rates between 80-95%, math proficiency is most often below 50%. (There’s a wide range in ...

North Carolina is working on a major overhaul of its math standards that state officials hope will better connect what students learn in the classroom to the real world.