In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber ...

In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber Simpson, associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and ...

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

Sorenson attributes her students’ language and content growth to the school’s intensive training for teachers across the ...

Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

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 ...

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 ...

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Math improvement rarely stalls because districts aren’t taking action. More often, it stalls because well-intentioned ...

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...

A teacher in Texas educates students about inclusivity in the LGBTQ community. He recently shared a clip where he discusses ...