2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (1063+ words) At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What's their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish'todo" (everything), or naranja" (orange). Then, students used the commercial platform Kahoot…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago  (1781+ words) Math teacher Al Rabanera has a new tool in his decades-long quest to ensure his students, most of whom come from low-income families and marginalized backgrounds, see themselves in the curriculum. Many of of Rabanera's students at La Vista High…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (980+ words) Middle school math teachers are all too familiar with a question'usually uttered with a groan'that students ask when they make an unsettling shift into more complex content: "When am I ever going to use this?" "At the middle school age,…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago  (1750+ words) For Sarah Murmann's high school geometry students, it's the little things that cause the biggest problems. Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she's trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean theorem, for instance....

2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (797+ words) Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist into middle school, it can undermine their ability to master more complex math. That's because the ability to build upon foundational fractions…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (977+ words) Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in upper elementary grades, they should be able to produce the answer to 6x3 or 4x8 quickly and accurately....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (247+ words) The Jan. 22 Education Week article, "Debates Over Math Teaching Are Heating Up. They Could Affect Classrooms, frames current disagreements in mathematics education as a conflict between explicit instruction and inquiry-based teaching. The deeper dispute, however, concerns how research is interpreted…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago  (307+ words) Students are barely beginning to recover from a historic decline in math performance. Across every grade and region of the country, students in every racial, income, and disability group have flatlined or lost ground since 2015, wiping out nearly two decades…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (774+ words) Ask students if they think they can succeed in core academic subjects like English/language arts, science, and math, and many will say they are confident they can. But their teachers aren't nearly as sure. A majority of secondary school…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1036+ words) Today's post continues a series offering suggestions on how to best respond when students make mistakes. Sarah Nichols is a national-board-certified teacher and a Utah Teacher Fellow in Salt Lake City: For example, if my learning goal for them involves…...