Plenty of students have math anxiety. It turns out some educators have their own anxiety about teaching the subject, a new ...

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

BALTIMORE -- Imagine you're a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

What teacher isn’t on the lookout for new and effective instructional strategies? In this multipart series, educators will share their “nominations” for those teaching strategies that can be effective ...

A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and ...

School leaders can use these ideas to provide math teachers with discipline-specific insights for improving their ...

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 ...