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 ...

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 ...

What should I do for tomorrow's math class?I open the teacher's manual and decide, 'I'll just do it this way.' I make the ...

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...

Teacher education often receives criticism for being too theoretical. Many students lack more training in how to teach in practice when they enter schools. They now receive this at the University of ...

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the ...

I am a high school Japanese teacher.I teach classical literature, read modern prose, and explore the deeper meanings behind ...

Are you a “math person”? It’s a question that gets settled at an early age: Most students have made up their mind about whether they identify as a math person by the time they’re in middle school, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teacher Kabuzi takes Mathematics lessons beyond the classroom. When the bell rings, the class ends. But Mr Wilber Sensamba, ...

In a bid to improve state test scores, New York City public schools have embarked on a major undertaking to standardize math instruction across its middle and high schools — but some teachers have ...