They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

Getting early-childhood educators more comfortable with teaching math was the focus of a summer workshop held by the Erikson Institute in Chicago, Ill. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The ...

Teachers are the first to tell you whether PD is worth their time…and our teachers are asking for more of this professional ...

Elementary math teachers remember what they learn in their teacher preparation programs, and use it when writing lesson plans years down the road, according to a study published in the American ...

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Teachers continue to learn after they leave college through experiences they have with their students and through formal professional development. Offered through school districts and other ...

Few may realize that when police officers work over a bloody crime scene, trigonometry and other math could help solve the case. But teachers learned that and a few other lessons during an intensive ...

In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by staring at a whiteboard and copying zeros. They go to a beach and count grains of sand. “Some of them start by ...

These are common phrases Brainerd High School math teachers say they hear time and time again from those who may suffer from math anxiety. Characterized by a negative emotional reaction to math that ...

Inside her fifth-grade classroom at Brandon Elementary School, teacher Jill Carlson sees her students slumped in their chairs ...