Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

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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 ...

If you are a math teacher in 2025, you have likely had The Conversation in the faculty lounge. It usually goes something like this:"I assigned a worksheet on qu ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Ask a parent, politician, or school board member to describe the ideal qualifications of a math teacher, and most would probably rank having a college major in that ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. For folks in the literacy world, the bitter fight over California’s math framework ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by ...

Inside her fifth-grade classroom at Brandon Elementary School, teacher Jill Carlson sees her students slumped in their chairs ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...