In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber ...
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Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.
The May 23 article, “Three Ways to Build Student Confidence in Math,” resonated deeply with my research on psychological safety and feedback in math classrooms. The article highlights formative ...
Families might be wondering why their child's math classroom looks so different from what they remember in school. Why aren't teachers putting students on the spot and getting them to prove that they ...
Newly released national test scores show student achievement in math rising at the elementary school level—but not among ...
For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...
While this year’s STAAR results showed improvement in some grade levels across the Wichita Falls Independent School District, ...
Math improvement rarely stalls because districts aren’t taking action. More often, it stalls because well-intentioned ...
Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...