Reston, VA-The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and KenKen ® have formed a new educational partnership designed to help teachers engage students in mathematical thinking through the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wendi Fritz is in her seventh year at Salt Fork Junior High in Sidell after stops in Paris and Oakwood as part of a 19-year career as a junior-high math teacher. "She is deeply dedicated to ...

TCP-NCTM Math Teaching in Practice Series. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has partnered with Teachers College Press (TCP) at Teachers College, Columbia Uni ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...