In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by staring at a whiteboard and copying zeros. They go to a beach and count grains of sand. “Some of them start by ...
Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class are multitude.
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 ...
During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...
A lot of struggling math students have found comfort in the mathematical stylings of Salman Khan. A few years back, Khan started creating videos to help tutor his cousin in math. Those videos became ...
In 2016 Catherine Attard received funding from Slate Science, who produce the Matific digital resources. Many parents are beginning to demand less technology use in the primary classroom due to the ...
This story is part of a series from the Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, ...
The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do math teachers view as their biggest challenges and how can they best respond to them? All of us educators face challenges. This series will explore what ...
Other IntelliTools math products include Number Concepts 1, Number Concepts 2, MathPad, and MathPad Plus, which provide interactive and customizable experiences for mastery of K-8 concepts. Math ...
Students can have a range of physical, cognitive, sensory, and learning disabilities that affect their entire lives. Any of these might pose unique academic challenges, particularly when learning ...
Jessica Bernards believes anyone can thrive in math class. That’s the mentality that she projects to her Portland Community College students, and it’s the one that helped her win the 2021 national ...