Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...
A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.
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 ...
Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...
Carrie Stark always relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. Alas, the kids had fun, as AP reported, but the ...
To the editor: Math classes should be eliminated and replaced by another recess period. In other words, if mathematics or arithmetic was taught as puzzles to be explored and as a fun activity instead ...
In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...
An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...
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How to teach zero

Zero may be nothing, but it's essential to learning math! Discover how to teach zero to kids through these fun and engaging math activities.
About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...
The New Mexico Senate unanimously passed two bills furthering the state’s approach to improving math and literacy instruction ...
Tom Evert is a “teaching artist” who teaches math and geometry through the lens of interpretive dance at various Northeast Ohio schools. “We use dance to demonstrate our principles,” explained the ...