They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Teachers are the first to tell you whether PD is worth their time…and our teachers are asking for more of this professional ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

The M3T program has been going on for almost 10 years in West Virginia and focuses on guiding professional learning, ...

Female elementary school teachers can pass on their anxiety and stereotypes about math to female students, and girls who adopt this outlook perform worse at math, research at the University of Chicago ...

Racial and gender stereotypes may color teachers’ perceptions of students’ math abilities, even when they rate students’ performance equally. A new study in the journal Educational Researcher, led by ...

Recently, Jan Koop came to the end of a two-year project of helping teachers from two area schools to improve their skills at teaching math—funded through a $236,000 Improving Teacher Quality Grant ...

Poor performance in previous math classes and low confidence are some of students’ biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to math success, according to a new survey about math education. The survey of ...

When Tyler Run Elementary School math teacher Becky Dittman's fifth-grade students told her they wanted to learn what a million of something looked like, she helped them collect as many pennies as ...