Education Week

Supporting Struggling Math Students Means Building Their Number Sense—and Confidence

Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...
Cal Alumni Association

Seven Ways to Cultivate Joy and Empathy in Math Class

When we think about lessons in joy and empathy, math class might not immediately spring to mind. But perhaps it should. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is often touted as ...
OPB

For Class of 2025 students, math more often means better grades, better understanding

OPB has been following a group of students in the Class of 2025, after the state of Oregon set a goal that every student starting with that class, should successfully complete high school. The group ...
Education Week

I Thought I Knew When Students Were Engaged in Math Class. I Was Wrong

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, “because that is what they will remember.” It’s a sentence that has made me ...
WRAL

DPI outlines changes to proposed math overhaul, wants new classes to be available to all

State education leaders are revising their draft standards that would make fundamental changes to how students -- especially high school students -- learn and engage with math. But some State Board of ...
KQED

To Boost Math, Schools Try Having Young Children Change Classes for the Subject

BATON ROUGE, La. — About two dozen second graders sat on the carpet at the front of Jacquelyn Anthony’s classroom, reviewing how to make tens. “Two needs eight!” the students yelled out together. “Six ...