Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

This post is by Scott Swaaley (P.E., LEED AP), who teaches ninth grade physics and engineering at High Tech High in San Diego. As a scientist and engineer, I really like math. The fact that people ...

Several weeks ago, I went to my first academic conference since taking my daughter home. It was also my first occasion in eleven years to attend my favorite conference, for the Association for ...

This summer, as Georgia rolls out new math requirements, Kaycie Maddox’s challenge has as much to do with words as numbers. Maddox, a math specialist for a regional education services agency, is ...

RENO, Nev. – Teruni Lamberg, associate professor of elementary education at the University of Nevada, Reno's College of Education, has a passion for preparing current and future teachers to teach math ...

Writing rough drafts, discussing ideas with peers, and revising are familiar activities in English language arts classes where students can develop their ideas, revise their work, and augment their ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

Multiple studies indicate that the timing of when preschoolers understand cardinality — that the last number word in counting represents the total — strongly predicts later math performance. Children ...

American presenters described teacher preparation in the United States and offered some perspectives on the challenges of ensuring access to and equity in mathematics education in a very diverse ...