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 the word ...

Teaching Skills by Using Them Rather than teaching skills “just in case,” we need to start teaching our students the skills they need, “just in time” for them to use them.

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The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new ...

The school had room for improvement in maths results, with Nathan observing a diverse range of teaching approaches among staff, including discovery and games-based teaching strategies.

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said that 72 schools had been trialling new textbooks based on the Singapore approach to maths teaching “to see how they drive up standards”.

Many students in Shanghai, China, are taught math using the mastery approach. Getty / Guang Niu The predominantly Asian approach to teaching mathematics in schools, called the "mastery approach ...

The “emporium” approach has drawn national attention and support from deep-pocketed foundations. But two new studies raise questions about whether this model of mathematics instruction works ...

The new curriculum is the grade-level math that my Algebra I students should be doing. When given the chance, so many rise to ...

Katrina Schwartz at Mind/Shift recently wrote a great article about Real World Math, explaining why it can be such a useful tool. Petra takes an inquiry learning approach to the Google Earth-based ...