When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...
Visit a class in Val Verde Unified where teachers are helping students find new ways to learn math. Visit a class in Val Verde Unified where teachers are helping students find new ways to learn math.
In recent decades, K-12 math education has evolved significantly, shifting from rote memorization to fostering conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. Achievement First (AF), a network of ...
The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build on English learners’ strengths. Seventy-seven percent of 8th-grade ...
A documentary screening Monday at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley will take a look at math, how it’s taught, how the subject is approached and its power and necessity in the 21st ...
DALLAS In Eran McGowan’s math class, students try to teach each other. If a student is brave enough to share how they solved a math problem, they stand up in front of the other third graders and say, ...
A child’s early experiences with math can make a big difference in how they navigate numbers and solve mathematical problems for the rest of their life, but many children aren’t developing the ...
Would folks like to design a skateboard, bang a drum, pretend to be a weather forecaster or virtually explore Mars? Or would they rather study up on geometric properties, fractions, statistics, ...