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Teaching math, at least in part, by having students solve real-world problems is becoming increasingly popular in schools. In fact, California recently adopted a controversial framework that embraces ...

Bowling Green State University third-year mathematics education student DeNae Bumpus, originally from Toledo, teaches during a December Math Camp in Thailand. Gabriel Matney has been teaching ...

Bates professors know that many first-year students can feel vulnerable, lost, and isolated. Those feelings, while normal, can deny students what they came to college for: the collective joy of ...

Math skills, such as data analysis and statistics, are one of the most sought-after skills for new employees, even in fields outside of STEM. But many students think that they’re not a “math person” ...

California has a new math framework that stresses making math relevant to all students’ lives and teaching big ideas and concepts. Critics say it will cause more students to fail, by de-emphasizing ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

Just as the science of reading has shown that some instructional practices are more effective than others, research points toward a more effective ‘science of math’ In 1997, the National Reading Panel ...

Math will look and feel a lot different in San Francisco schools this year and that seems evident by the picture of the chilled-out chimpanzee on the cover of the new kindergarten textbook, with ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deidre Kelly. It has been edited for length and clarity. This is my 14th year teaching sixth-grade math, and I enjoy it just as much as I did when ...