Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...
They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...
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 ...
These four classroom shifts can make academic risk-taking feel safer, clearer, and more worthwhile for middle school students ...
Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.
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 ...
An 11-year-old Ridgeview student’s idea became a math club that placed in the top 10% nationally in its first year of ...
Philadelphia students are performing the best they have in math in years, showing steady improvement since the pandemic.
In teacher Jeremy Gwyn's geometry class at Hempfield High School, students are learning mathematics in a way their parents did not. These students use laptop computers and graphing calculators. Their ...
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 ...
Pi is undoubtedly the world's most popular irrational number. And that's because it's unequivocally cool — I mean, what other mathematical constant has its own day? On its face, pi is a simple concept ...