Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...
After 20 years teaching high school math, I thought I understood why students struggled. Then I sat in my first professional learning session focused on early math and was humbled. Like many secondary ...
When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also ...
An AP Statistics teacher decided to ask his students what they wanted to learn about. The results are a curriculum that makes math feel relevant to students' interests. In a high-poverty school in San ...
Savvas Learning Company has introduced enVision+ Mathematics, the latest version of its math program or grades K-8. The redesigned program offers new AI-powered productivity tools, called Savvas ...
About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...
Professional development is foundational to educational success, but our current model is in desperate need of an upgrade. Well-designed curricula are rendered ineffective without a parallel ...
How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...
Imagine if you enrolled your child in swimming lessons but instead of a qualified swimming instructor, they were taught freestyle technique by a soccer coach. Something similar is happening in ...
As New Mexico takes steps to do for math education what it has done for reading, Santa Fe Public Schools is taking a leap. The district is an early adopter of the state’s push to remake math ...