Carrie Stark always relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. Alas, the kids had fun, as AP reported, but the ...
(SHS), innovative teaching makes math a tailored experience for students. "We've always had this idea of why not accelerate our highest achieving students so that by eighth grade they can take ...
“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...
Tom Evert is a “teaching artist” who teaches math and geometry through the lens of interpretive dance at various Northeast Ohio schools. “We use dance to demonstrate our principles,” explained the ...
INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — Ella Hereth, a geometry teacher at IPS’ Harshman Middle School, learned this month that she won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...
How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...
About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...
Become the math teacher your future students need. There’s a difference between learning a subject and learning to teach it. You’ll want to do both to be the kind of teacher that inspires their ...
"My job is to interact with kids," says Alonzo Nelson, Jr., who teaches high school math in Belleville, Illinois. "I miss the human element of it" After almost a year-and-a-half t eaching classes via ...
No stranger to Ector County ISD, Jeff Woltz is in his rookie year in the district teaching geometry at Odessa High School. Woltz was an adjunct math professor at Odessa College some years ago and had ...
EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students In its “State of the States” report on math instruction published last week, the National Council on ...