A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

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Math scores improved on Florida standardized tests this year, but a team of researchers say we still need to do better as a state at teaching math. Over the course of ten weeks, University of Florida ...

Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All synthesizes and illustrates much of the current pedagogical research on effective math teaching, according to the NCTM. The 135-page book, ...

A recent study finds that Black high-school students tend not to believe that their teachers are adequately prepared to teach them math in appropriate ways, have negative perceptions of their math ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

Homing in on social justice issues in math education might be just what U.S. curriculum needs, according to The National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM). The organization, dedicated to ...

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House Correspondent for "The Daily Signal." Send her an email. The Oregon Department of Education is instructing teachers on the keys to dismantling “systemic ...

E ducation reformers hoping to improve student outcomes have long urged professors to abandon the “transmission” model of teaching — in which an expert imparts knowledge and students absorb it — and ...