A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.
They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...
More Latrenda Knighten, the president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, agreed students can learn math concepts at a young age and preschools should teach much more of it. She ...
Too often, the focus, when it comes to teaching maths, is on what the student must do: be more consistent, practise more, be more disciplined. But rarely do we ask: what more can the teacher do?
"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 ...
To help close the maths gap in South Africa, Wits experts believe the focus should lie on the teacher. Less than a third of learners registered for the national senior certificate have core ...
Milton Elementary-Middle math teacher, Annette Bodin, has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Education All-Stars award by ...
An AP Statistics teacher decided to ask his students what they wanted to learn about. The results are a curriculum that makes math feel relevant to students' interests. In a high-poverty school in San ...
a professor of Mathematics, Michael Alonge, has identified recruitment of unqualified teachers as a major cause of lack of interest in the subject in private and public schools. He also identified ...
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Linda Hobbs has received funding from the Australian Research Council for a Discovery Grant focused on teaching out-of-field. Calls for universities to recruit more science and maths students as a way ...